Mongolia: UlaanBaatar - Zaisan Memorial
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Channel: Nigel Fowler Sutton · 2010 · Travel & Events
The Zaisan Memorial is a monument honouring Soviet Russian soldiers killed during The Great Patriotic War. The monument features a circular memorial painting depicting the friendship between the USSR and Mongolia; Soviet support for Mongolia's independence declaration in 1921: the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army by the Soviets at Khalhkin Gol on the Mongolian border in 1939; the defeat of Nazi Germany & post-war Soviet space flights. At the base of the hill there is a Soviet tank from a brigade paid for by the Mongolian people. The plinth shows the route of the brigade from Moscow when it started out in 1943 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. This is a popular place with tourists as there are extensive view over the city below..........
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