ГБУ "МАЦ"

The monument was installed in honor of the soldiers of the 5th Guards Tank Army who participated in the largest tank battle of the Great Patriotic War near the village of Prokhorovka in 1943 in which up to 1,200 tanks and self-propelled guns participated on both sides.

The Burevestnik factory was founded in 1924 under the name of the State Concentrated Factory of Mechanical Shoe Production.

During the Great Patriotic War this building housed a hospital for wounded soldiers of the Soviet Army.

In this building, in 1942-1943, there was a central women’s sniper school which trained over 2,000 female snipers who heroically fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

There is a memorial plaque in memory of the location of the headquarters of the formation of the Guards mortar units “Katyusha”.

The monument in honor of the 85th Guards Mortar Regiment occupies the central place in Courage Square of the Izmailovsky PKiO.

Arkady Petrovich Mikhailovsky was the Admiral, commander of the nuclear submarine «K-178» of the Northern Fleet, captain of the 1st rank, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Viktorovich Solomatin was a commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 245th Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 22nd Army of the North Caucasus Military District, the Lieutenant, the Hero of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Vladimirovich Grishin was a Colonel of the Soviet Army, partisan of the Great Patriotic War, the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Valery Alekseevich Legasov was the Deputy Head of the Government Commission for the Elimination of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident, Deputy Director of the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy for Scientific Work, Head of the Department of Chemical Technology of the Chemical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Hero of Russia.