Unusual places and monuments. Unusual places and monuments Monument at the Ministry of Defense they fought for their homeland

In 2013, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow had a composition dedicated to the characters of the film "Officers". The Ministry of Defense decided not to stop there, and on November 30, 2016, a monument to the heroes of another wonderful film, “They Fought for the Motherland,” was solemnly opened there, on Frunzenskaya Embankment.

History repeated itself - the authors of the composition were the same team of the studio of military artists named after Grekov, the opening was attended by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu, the heads of the CIS defense departments, and veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The sculpture represents all the main characters of the film: Nikolai Streltsov (played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov), Ivan Zvyagintsev (Sergei Bondarchuk), the “inseparable couple” - Pyotr Lopakhin (Vasily Shukshin) and Alexander Kopytovsky (Georgy Burkov), Nekrasov (Yuri Nikulin). I would also add here Sergeant Major Poprishchenko, played by Ivan Lapikov, but the authors did not include him. Maybe so as not to “overload” the composition, or maybe for other reasons.

"They Fought for the Motherland" was released in 1975. Sholokhov initially denied Bondarchuk the right to film adaptation, but then agreed on the condition that the film would be filmed in places of real battles and in conditions as close as possible to real ones. As a result, a weak (by the standards of "Quiet Flows the Don") novel turned into a great film.

For Vasily Shukshin, his role in the film was his last - he died suddenly during filming. Shukshin’s classmate at VGIK, Yuri Solovyov, starred in the remaining scenes. The hero of Shukshin was voiced by actor Igor Efimov, whose voice we know from the voice acting of other famous characters - for example, Inspector Lestrade played by B. Brondukov in “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson”.

By the way...

There is information that the sculpture was originally installed in Patriot Park, but I did not find confirmation of this.

"They fought for their homeland"

musical and literary composition

Target: show the true face of the war, demonstrate the decisive role of the Soviet people in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Tasks:

- introduce the military exploits of Soviet people and, in particular, fellow countrymen in the rear and on the battlefields;

Development of aesthetic taste through communication with the best examples of classical music, literary and musical art of the war years;

To form a feeling of gratitude and appreciation for those who gave us Victory.

Design: paraphernalia of the Great Patriotic War (photo posters, gramophone, images of orders and medals); on the board - topic, epigraph.

Musical arrangement: R. Schumann “Dreams”, musical recordings of the songs “Dugout”, “Dark Night”, “Blue Handkerchief”, “Holy War”, “Get up, the country is huge.”

R. Schumann's "Dreams" sounds

Presenter1: On May 9, 2015, the Victory salute will go off for the 70th time. And the immeasurable suffering of the war years and the immeasurable courage of the people are still alive in the people’s memory.

The last peaceful day of 1941 was Saturday June 22. After an ordinary week of work, millions of Soviet people went on vacation. They just continued to breathe the heat of the blast furnaces, the chimneys continued to smoke, freight and passenger trains rushed along the railways...
The silence of the coming night, warm and fragrant like a summer, in many cities and villages was broken by the happy voices of young people celebrating their entry into adulthood, their graduation party. On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the great battle of our people for their Motherland began. The path to victory was long - 1418 days and nights of war. And every day is blood and death, pain and bitterness of loss, immeasurable suffering of people, unparalleled courage and valor of the people, the joy of large and small victories. The Soviet people stood shoulder to shoulder in defense of the Motherland along with its army: the people's militia, courageous partisans, fearless underground fighters.

The soundtrack of the song “Get up, huge country” is playing.

Presenter 2: Almost 70 years ago the last salvos of the Great Patriotic War died down. The severe wounds inflicted by the war have healed. However, the events of those years are so exciting that they cannot be erased from memory by the speed of time.The war lasted 4 years – that’s 1418 days and nights! 34 thousand hours and 20 million dead people! 20 million in 1418 days - that means 14 thousand killed daily, 600 thousand people per hour, 10 people every minute. That's what 20 million is! Think about these numbers! At what cost did all humanity win the right to life, joy, work...

The Great Patriotic War was the most difficult and cruel of all the wars our Motherland has ever experienced. War - they blew up without sparing their lives, stood to the death near Moscow, beat enemies on the Volga and Dnieper, liberated Poland and Czechoslovakia, took Berlin by storm. According to incomplete data, 3,441 brave and courageous patriots - Guryevites - were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union for the valor and courage shown in battles. Many gave the most precious thing for the happiness of the Fatherland - life.Our people performed thousands and thousands of military feats at the front and in the rear. These exploits must always be remembered.

Vladimir:

Did you bequeath to us to die - Motherland?

Life promised

Love promised - Motherland

Did you want our death - Rodina

The flame hit the sky - do you remember - Motherland

She said quietly: Get up to the rescue - -Motherland

Nobody asked you for fame, Motherland

Everyone just had a choice

Me or the Motherland,

The best and most expensive - -Motherland

Your grief is our grief - Motherland

Your truth -

This is our truth - Motherland,

Your glory -

This is our glory-Motherland!

Presenter 1: The names of the Heroes of the Soviet Union - our fellow countrymen - are inscribed in golden letters in the history of our country.

1.Borana Nysanbaeva

2.Alexandra Afanasyeva

3.Musa Baimukhanova

4. Georgiy Kantsev

5. Kairgali Ismagulova –

The song “At a Nameless Height” is playing.

Village Zeleny, Novobogatinsky district, Guryev region. Boran Nysanbaev grew up here and went to the front. The glorious son of the Kazakh people repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov. A native of the village put his chest in defense of the Soviet country. Ganyushkino, Dengiz district, Guryev region Afanasyev Alexander Nikiforovich. He distinguished himself during the crossing of the Dnieper. The Nazis called the Dnieper the “Line of Death.” But the people turned out to be stronger than the deaths.

Our fellow countryman Musa Baimukhanov showed courage and heroism during the crossing of the Oder. He was born in the Makat district of the Guryev region. The battle path began at the walls of Leningrad, and the Oder became the pinnacle of military glory. On April 10, 1945, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Presenter2: Georgy Fedorovich Kantsev. A native of the village of Makhambet, Makhambet district, Guryev region. From 1941 to 1945 was in the ranks of the Soviet Army. They fought fiercely near the border with Poland. The Narew River stood in the way. Rota, under the command of Kantsev, was the first to cross this river, inflicting heavy enemy fire on itself. Kantsev fought heroically until the complete victory over Nazi Germany.

Presenter1 : in 1939, from the Balykshinsky district of the Guryev region, Kairgali Ismagulov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. Many trials befell him. For five terrible years he walked the roads of war. He fought near Rostov and took part in the battles for Novorossiysk.

For heroism and courage, on November 17, 1943, Ismagulov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Nikita:

We were as big as time

And they were alive like time

Now we are in the legends of glorious days

Now we are in poems and prose

Now we are in granite and bronze

Now we are in the silence of gravestones

Thanks for the memory, descendants

Thank you for your loyalty descendants

Thank you for having the dawn

No wonder we laughed at death

No wonder our tears and rage

It's not in vain that our songs and vows are not in vain

And you stay alive

Beautiful and long alive

We know your road is not easy

But you are our continuation,

But you are our consolation,

But you are our glory, our dream

The music "Small Land" is playing.

Presenter 2: Guys, every day you hear dozens of songs. Some songs become incredibly popular and are suddenly forgotten. But there are some songs that have survived their time and become classics. Classic means exemplary, impeccable, impeccable. The authors of these songs have captured some kind of nerve, some secret mechanism that affects the listener even after decades. And makes the song eternal. Such eternal songs include songs of the Great Patriotic War.

Do you think a song can be a fighter or a formidable weapon?

A song can be a fighter because it leads into battle.

As long as people sing songs, they believe in victory.

Song brings people together and makes them stronger, so it can be a formidable weapon.

A song can lift the spirit of warriors and raise them to heroic deeds, so a song is a formidable weapon.

In songs, soldiers sing about what is dear to them, for which they will fight until the last drop of blood.

The song helps the soldiers in their life at the front, so we can say that the song fights with the soldiers, which means the song is also a fighter.

Presenter 1: Indeed, a song is both a fighter and a formidable weapon. Today we will talk about songs of the Great Patriotic War. These songs accompanied our soldiers to the front and greeted us in liberated cities, songs lifted us into battle and helped us survive the loss of loved ones, songs walked with the infantry and rode with tankers along the dusty roads of war, songs rose into the sky on wings with red stars and plowed the seas . The song is a musical chronicle of the Great Patriotic War. And the songs really fought!

Presenter2: The German scientist Eberhard Dieckmann told our writer Vadim Kozhinov that in Germany before the war they did not sing lyrical songs at all - only marches were heard everywhere! In these marches Germany was glorified, the German nation was sung, the Fuhrer and Nazi leaders were praised. These songs were supposed to raise the morale of German soldiers before marching to the East to conquer living space. With such a fighting spirit, a German soldier crossed the border of our country, and Nazi marches began to flow across our land. And everywhere, in all corners of our country, our entire people rose up against these marches: soldiers and sailors, old people and children, people of all nationalities rose up to fight so that they would never hear these Nazi marches on their land.

What songs inspired our people to fight? I will list only the titles: “Nightingales”, “Darkie”, “Blue Handkerchief”, “Dark Night”, “Katyusha”, “Dugout”, “Oh, my fogs are foggy”. These were not marching songs, but lyrical songs. They talked about love, about home, about spring, about birch trees, nightingales. And these songs won! Because with these songs our people defended not their living space, but their native land, their native birches, loved ones and loved ones. Our class prepared a story about the history of the creation of several songs. Today we will listen to the songs of the Great Patriotic War, learn about the history of their creation, mentally transport ourselves to those thunderstorms of the forties, imagine how our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers felt when they heard these songs at the front or in the rear. There is probably no person in our country who would not recognize this song.

« Dugout" - karaoke

(The song “Dugout” plays.)

Presenter 1:

You are far, far away now.

Between us there is snow and snow.

It's not easy for me to reach you,

And there are four steps to death.

The poet Alexei Surkov wrote these lines in 1941 in a dugout, in “snow-white fields near Moscow.” He had no idea that he was writing the words of a popularly known song. He simply wrote a letter to his wife in verse, describing his feelings after the difficult battles for Moscow. A year later, composer K. Listov happened to be passing through Moscow. He came to the editorial office of the front-line newspaper, where the poet Surkov worked and asked for something “song”. The poet proposed this lyrical letter. The composer immediately composed a melody and wrote it down on an ordinary piece of notebook paper - he drew five rulers, wrote down the notes and left. The words and melody of the song were published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. The song turned out to be very warm, sincere, a little sad, but it did not evoke melancholy among the soldiers, but contempt for death. This song was a song - a fighter, participated in the struggle and helped bring victory closer. It was loved and sung on all fronts, just like the other song you are about to hear.

"Dark Night" - karaoke

(The song “Dark Night” plays.)

Presenter2: The song “Dark Night” from the film “Two Fighters” was first performed by the popular favorite actor Mark Bernes, who played the main role. The song was immediately remembered by the audience. It was written literally in one breath. The film “Two Fighters” was filmed in 1942 at the Tashkent Film Studio. The music for the film was written by the famous composer Nikita Bogoslovsky. According to the director's plan, a sincere song should have been featured in the film. As soon as the director explained to the composer the state and feelings of the hero, Nikita Bogoslovsky immediately sat down at the piano and played the melody of the future song without stopping. That's how this music was born the first time. This is how she entered the film without a single change. On all fronts this song was heard in moments of short rest, in between battles. Our soldier fought for his home, for his crib, for his beloved, until the “dark night” of the war ended over our country.

“Blue Handkerchief” - karaoke

(The song “Blue Handkerchief” plays.)

Presenter1: Moscow jazz lovers sang the song “Blue Handkerchief” even before the war. But this light jazz song would have been forgotten very soon if not for the People's Artist of the Soviet Union Klavdiya Shulzhenko. In 1942, she asked a young lieutenant, an employee of a front-line newspaper, to write other words to this melody. The lieutenant composed all night. This is how the song with military words appeared.

“I immediately liked the simple, touching words,” said Shulzhenko. - There was a lot of truth in them. Each warrior has one native woman, the most beloved, close and dear, for grief, suffering, deprivation, for separation from whom he will take revenge on the enemy.

The machine gunner is scribbling

For a blue handkerchief,

What was on the shoulders of the dear ones!

This was the second birth of the song. With the new text, the “Blue Handkerchief” took its place in the combat positions and reached Berlin with our soldier. Such episodes of the war speak about how the “Blue Handkerchief” fought. Once Shulzhenko gave a concert in an aviation regiment. After the concert, one of the pilots told her that the “Blue Handkerchief” would be with the pilots in all battles and they would dedicate the first “Junker” or “Messer” they shot down to her. Shulzhenko did not have to wait long. The very next day, this pilot shot down a fascist Messerschmitt. “We needed Shulzhenko’s songs, like shells and cartridges, in battle,” said soldiers and officers.

"Holy War" - karaoke

(The song “Holy War” plays».)

Presenter2:

The main song of the Great Patriotic War is “Holy War”. This song contained a charge of such power that to this day many people get a lump in their throat and tears come to their eyes when they hear: “Get up, huge country, get up for mortal combat...”

- “This is a hymn of revenge and a curse on Hitlerism” - this is what its author, composer A. Alexandrov, said about this song. He recalled that during the war this song was always listened to while standing, with some special impulse, a holy mood, and not only the fighters, but also the performers themselves often cried.

Presenter1: This song was born in the very first days of the war. In one night, the poet V. Lebedev-Kumach wrote a poem, which was immediately published in newspapers. Composer A. Alexandrov read this poem in one of the newspapers. He was the leader of the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble. The poem made such a strong impression on the composer that he immediately sat down at the piano. The next day, Alexandrov was already rehearsing a new song with the ensemble. And a day later, the choir performed the song for the first time at the Belorussky railway station, from where combat trains departed for the front in those days.

Presenter2: Here's what contemporaries wrote about this first performance

“...In the waiting room there was a platform made from freshly planed boards - a kind of stage for a performance. The ensemble's artists climbed to this elevation, and a doubt involuntarily arose in them: is it possible to perform in such an environment? There is noise in the hall, sharp commands, sounds of the radio. The words of the presenter, who announces that the song “Holy War” will now be performed for the first time, are drowned in the general hum. But then the hand of Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov rises and the hall gradually falls silent...

The worries were in vain. From the very first bars, the song captured the fighters. And when the second verse sounded, there was absolute silence in the hall. Everyone stood up, as if during the anthem. Tears are visible on the stern faces, and this excitement is transmitted to the performers. They all have tears in their eyes too...

The song died down, but the fighters demanded a repetition. Again and again - five times in a row! - the ensemble sang “The Holy War” ... "

Presenter1: Thus began the battle path of this song, a glorious and long path. From that day on, “The Holy War” was adopted by our army and all the people, and became the musical anthem of the Great Patriotic War. It was sung everywhere - at the forefront, in partisan detachments, in the rear. Every morning after the striking of the Kremlin chimes, it sounded on the radio. In the chronicles of the Patriotic War there are many heroic episodes that tell how this anthem song entered into battle. One of them dates back to the spring of 1942. A small group of defenders of Sevastopol took up defense in a cave carved into the rock. The Nazis furiously stormed this natural fortress and threw grenades at it. The strength of the defenders was melting... And suddenly a song was heard from the depths of the dungeon:

Get up, huge country,

Stand up for mortal combat

With fascist dark power,

With the damned horde...

Then there was a strong explosion, and fragments of rock filled the cave... The Soviet soldiers did not surrender to the hated enemy. Many military leaders said that the power of this song could be compared to “an entire armored corps.”

Presenter2: Today you got acquainted with the history of several songs of the Great Patriotic War. What impression did these songs make on you? How does your family feel about these old songs?

Grandmothers, grandfathers, parents love these songs, they love watching TV shows, they know the words by heart.

When there is a celebration in the family and all the relatives gather, old songs are always sung at the table.

Songs like “Holy War” cannot be sung just like that. This is a very strong song. This is something sacred.

The impression is a chill on the skin and a lump in the throat. It's the same with parents.

Presenter1:

At the beginning of the class we talked about how songs are like soldiers, they also fought. And the main song of the Great Patriotic War, “Holy War,” is still at the forefront. And in our time she is fighting. Suddenly rumors began to appear that supposedly the words of this song were written by a Russified German back in 1916 in connection with the First World War. And the poet Lebedev-Kumach appropriated them for himself or simply stole them. Philological scholars have exposed this lie. Firstly, there is not a single handwritten text belonging to the pen of this very German, and secondly, Lebedev-Kumach has preserved Dozens of drafts with variants of this poem, which indicates intense work on the text. And such a song could not have appeared before the First World War. The soldiers did not understand the essence of this war and did not want to fight - where did such intensity of patriotism, such energy come from? Why do you think all these accusations were started? It would seem, well, what difference does it make who wrote it?

Presenter2: The fact is that this is not just a song - it is a hymn to the greatness of the people who defeated fascism. In order to denigrate our Victory, they begin to “attack” his song... This is the same annoying desire to instill in us the idea of ​​our second-classness, inferiority. Like, what can these Russians create? Everything great comes only from the Germans. Our great-grandfathers have already dispelled this myth by hoisting a red flag over the Reichstag. Several generations of our people have been well vaccinated against these myths. How can today's youth avoid being captured by these myths?

Presenter1: The Great Patriotic War is moving further and further away from us. The generation that remembers this war is also passing away. But the memory of the people’s feat does not go away. It remains in books, photographs, films, and in the stories of great-grandfathers. But songs do not just preserve memory - they preserve the soul of the people. Listening to these songs, you understand that fascism was defeated not by fabulous heroes, but by ordinary people. They were scared, cold, hurt. But they survived. This is the strength and greatness of our great-grandfathers. And the songs helped them win, so the songs are also veterans of the Great Patriotic War. And on these May victorious days, let's remember them too.

Musical finale “Victory Day!”

(The music is turned on, the children sing songs that they learned about during the class hour.)

Presenter 2: Yes, we are eternally indebted to those who saved our lives. To be worthy of their memory means to study well, to work honestly for the good of the Motherland, increasing its glory and power, to be ready at any moment to defend its freedom, to do everything to prevent more war and to remember at what high price we got our present life.

Those who are bawling again about war and who set destruction as their first goal.

Let them remember in reality or in a dream about Hitler in a wretched dungeon.

And if in your mortal blindness

The enemies will decide to bring trouble upon us again,

We have more than enough days in the year

Fit for another Victory Day!

According to Sergei Shoigu, the sculptural composition is “a monument to the people who immortalized the feat of our soldiers and our country in cinema.” He expressed the hope that similar monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will appear throughout the former USSR.

The Russian Defense Minister said during his speech:

Monument erected on Frunzenskaya embankment

Sergei Shoigu with colleagues at the opening of the sculptural composition

Irina Skobtseva as a military doctor in the film “They Fought for the Motherland”

"They fought for their homeland." Movie trailer
The main roles in the famous film were played by Sergei Bondarchuk. For many of the film's actors. Bondarchuk himself (in his film he played Ivan Zvyagintsev) was a participant in hostilities - from 1942 to 1946, the director served in the Red Army.

Fragment from the film “They Fought for the Motherland”
Yuri Nikulin, who played the role of Private Nekrasov, was drafted into the army immediately after graduating from high school, served in an anti-aircraft battery near Sestroretsk during the Soviet-Finnish War, and fought near Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The actor was shell-shocked during an air raid on the Northern capital, but immediately after being discharged from the hospital he went to the 72nd separate anti-aircraft division near Kolpino. During the war, Yuri Vladimirovich was awarded the medals “For Courage” (initially he was nominated for the Order of Glory, III degree), “For the Defense of Leningrad” and “For Victory over Germany”. (the role of Nikiforov) was a tank driver and fought on the First Transbaikal Front and near Rzhev. The performer of the role of Lieutenant Goloshchekov was born on August 17, 1941 in the catacombs of Odessa, during the bombing. His father died at the front before Nikolai was born, and his mother was hanged in 1942 for refusing to cooperate with the German occupiers.

Photos from the filming of the film from the archives of Ogonyok magazine

Innokenty Smoktunovsky played the role of a surgeon

Vasily Shukshin as Lopakhin on the set of the film “They Fought for the Motherland”

Today, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, together with colleagues from the CIS countries, took part in the opening ceremony of a sculptural composition based on the film “They Fought for the Motherland” on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow.

“We continue our tradition of preserving and preserving the memory of the heroes of our Fatherland, those who defended the country in the most difficult years of its history. We would like this tradition to continue, which is why in the year of cinema we are opening this monument,” said the head of the Russian military department, speaking at the opening ceremony.

The Minister of Defense noted that this sculptural composition is also “a monument to the people who immortalized the feat of our soldiers and our country in cinema.”

“The fact that my colleagues, the defense ministers of the CIS countries, are present here today suggests that we have a common history, which we must preserve, multiply, and pass on to future generations,” emphasized Army General Sergei Shoigu.

The head of the Russian military department expressed hope that similar monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will appear throughout the territory of the former USSR.

At the end of the ceremony, Army General Sergei Shoigu thanked the authors and sculptors of the monument, as well as all those who created these images in the movies.

The sculptural composition “They Fought for the Motherland,” based on the film of the same name, was installed in front of the facade of the Russian Ministry of Defense building on Frunzenskaya Embankment. The monument is made of bronze and consists of five figures of the film’s characters walking one after another.

The opening of the monument was attended by the ministers of defense of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as veterans of the Great Patriotic War, members of the Youth Army and relatives of the actors and director of the film “They Fought for the Motherland.”

The Minister of Defense of Russia, together with colleagues from the CIS, opened the sculptural composition “They Fought for the Motherland”

The Minister of Defense of Russia, together with colleagues from the CIS, opened the sculptural composition “They Fought for the Motherland”

The Minister of Defense of Russia, together with colleagues from the CIS, opened the sculptural composition “They Fought for the Motherland”

The Minister of Defense of Russia, together with colleagues from the CIS, opened the sculptural composition “They Fought for the Motherland”