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	Mamayev Kurgan - Definition, explanation
		Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мама́ев Курга́н) is a dominant height overseeing the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia.
		When forces of the German 6th Army launched their attack against the city centre of Stalingrad on 13 September 1942, Mamayev Kurgan (appearing in military maps as "Height 102.0") saw particularly fierce fighting between the German attackers and the defending soldiers of the Soviet 62nd Army.
		Vasily Chuikov is buried at Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the Soviet Union to be buried outside of Moscow.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/ma/mamayev_kurgan.php (612 words)

	The Globalist \| Global History -- Stalingrad Revisited
		From atop Mamayev Kurgan, the focal point of the battle of Stalingrad, it is easy to see why.
		Even today, looking east from the imposing heights of Mamayev Kurgan, it is eerie to see that on the other side of the great Volga, a river as broad and impressive as the Mississippi, the embodiment of the soul of Russia, there literally is — nothing.
		Mamayev Kurgan is a war memorial like no other on earth — for it is dominated by an angry goddess.
	www.theglobalist.com /printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4547 (1393 words)

	Mamayev Kurgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 16 September they recaptured Mamayev Kurgan and kept fighting for the railway station, taking heavy losses.
		By 27 September 1942, the Germans had again captured half of Mamayev Kurgan.
		Mamayev Hill museum in Volgograd, official homepage (in Russian, English, German).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mamayev_Kurgan (713 words)

	Mamayev Kurgan Information
		It was built between 1959 and 1967 and is crowned by a huge allegorical statue of the Motherland on the top of the hill.
		Vasily Chuikov lies buried at Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the Soviet Union buried outside Moscow.
		Mamayev Hill museum in Volgograd, official homepage (in Russian, English, German).
	www.bookrags.com /Mamayev_Kurgan (674 words)

	HISTORICAL MEMORIAL COMPLEX “TO THE HEROES OF THE STALINGRAD BATTLE” AT MAMAYEV HILL
		Prevailing over the main part of the city, Mamayev Hill is marked on the maps as Height-102,0 and it was the main chain in the system of defense of the Stalingrad front.
		This is the place of the numerous human losses… Right here, in the area of Mamayev Hill, on the 2nd of February of 1943 the Stalingrad Battle was finished.
		The name of Mamayev Hill, according to the legend, comes from the name of a Tatar military commander Mamay.
	mamayevhill.volgadmin.ru /00_n.htm (413 words)

	Luffa.nu - Shock tourism - Shock tourism - Total war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The memorial complex "Mamayev Kurgan" was built in honour of victory over German forces in World War II.
		Mamayev Hill is the most impressive place in the world considering war monuments.
		The absolute highlight is the symbolic statue of the Motherland, a mother standing guard over her country, her raised sword threatening to destroy any who dare to invade her land, and calling on her sons to follow her example.
	www.luffa.nu /shock/war.htm (617 words)

	Mamayev Kurgan- Volgograd, Russia - VirtualTourist.com
		Mamaev Kurgan is a memorial of WWII and Stalingrad Battle.
		Recent public opinion polls have shown that even in the countries that took part in the war younger generations know little about it and their knowledge is often distorted.
		Mamayov Kurgan is a huge War memorial complex dedicated to those that lost their lives in the battle of Stalingrad.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Volgogradskaya_Oblast/Volgograd-535601/Things_To_Do-Volgograd-Mamayev_Kurgan-BR-1.html (1220 words)

	Volgograd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the heroism shown during the battle, Stalingrad was awarded the title Hero City in 1945, and King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded the citizens of Stalingrad a jewelled sword in appreciation of the bravery that they had shown.
		A memorial complex commemorating the battle, dominated by an immense allegorical sculpture of Mother Russia, was erected on the Mamayev Kurgan, a hill that saw some of the most intense fighting during the battle.
		These include a panoramic painting of the battlefield from the location of the monument "Mamayev Kurgan." Here a rifle of the famous sniper Vasily Zaytsev, who was featured in the film Enemy at the Gates can also be found.
	www.webinnovationph.com /wiki.php?title=Volgograd (811 words)

	battlesstalingrad
		The 95th Rifle Division reinforced the badly weakened 35th Guards Rifle Division to the south of the Tsaritsa Gorge and a Brigade of Marine Infantry were sent to fortify the grain elevator.
		Meanwhile the NKVD Regiment on the Kurgan was struggling to hold on to the summit following repeated attacks by the 295th Infantry Division.
		While the Russian 138th Infantry Division fought desperately to hold on to their position to the east of the Barrikady plant the 95th Rifle Division counter attacked to the plants south east, but was halted by heavy German shelling.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /Battles/battlestalingrad.htm (3593 words)

	Mamayev Kurgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 - February 1943) was the death of Hitler's dream of the conquest of Europe and is probably the most famous battle in history.
		The hill in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) known as Mamayev Kurgan rises to a height of 102 metres above sea level.
		Mamayev Kurgan was the highest point in the city and was bitterly fought over through January 1943.
	struggle.net /ben/2004/mamayev.htm (427 words)

	Battle of Stalingrad - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Fighting on Mamayev Kurgan, a prominent blood-soaked hill above the city, was particularly merciless.
		Nevertheless the fighting, especially on the slopes of Mamayev Kurgan and inside the factory area in the northern part of the city, continued as fiercely as ever.
		After the War, in the 1960s, a colossal monument of "Mother Russia" was erected on Mamayev Kurgan, the hill overseeing today's Volgograd.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=4284 (3512 words)

	Reaching Volgograd for Christ » Mamayev Kurgan
		After the rebuilding of the city’s basic infrastructure following the war, a number of monuments were built in Volgograd.
		None of them is more famous than the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex.
		To anyone with an interest in WWII history, it is a very moving experience to stroll through Mamayev Kurgan and remember the fierce battle that took place on this very site.
	hope4volgograd.com /2006/07/26/mamayev-kurgan (220 words)

	The Stalingrad Academy of Street Fighting
		An NKVD rifle battalion was sent up Mamayev Kurgan (presumably joining the 15 tanks that Fowler, 2005, says were the only defenders) and managed to retain a small part of the hill until reinforced.
		The intension was that one regiment would recapture Mamayev Kurgan, two would block the route the to the river, and a battalion would be retained as Army reserve.
		The armoured brigade attacked from the south-western outskirts of the Red October settlement towards the wagon-sheds and the western slopes of Mamayev Kurgan (Fowler, 2005, says the attack on Mamayev Kurgan was halted by German anti-tank guns.) A regiment from 10th NKVD Rifle Division (Sarayev) (Sarayev) reached a line on the northern edge of Dolgi gully.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/crossfire/scenarios/stalingrad.htm (18205 words)

	Youth for Beria
		Numerous monuments to the battle for Stalingrad are always decorated with fresh flowers; the 85-meter concrete statue of Mother Russia urges the Red Army soldiers onward as it rises from the highest hill in town, Mamayev Kurgan, or Mamayev Hill.
		The sandy grounds of the hill are themselves a mass grave for about 36,000 Red Army soldiers whose remains were buried in empty artillery boxes during the monument’s construction in the 1960s.
		At Mamayev Kurgan, Anokhin — a World War II enthusiast who also works as a history consultant in the city’s culture committee — urges his wards uphill, all the while declaiming to the boys about the glorious battle of Stalingrad, which convinced Hitler to turn his troops around and stop the genocide of the Russians.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/06/24/105-print.html (1742 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		The soaring Motherland Statue now tops Mamayev Kurgan, a hill that saw some of the fiercest fighting in the battle of Stalingrad.
		Its memory has been preserved at Mamayev Kurgan, the hill that is home to the soaring Motherland statue and other monuments.
		From beneath the statue, you can clearly see the three factories and the city center, and you realize why the hill was a valued strategic point that was fought over and changed hands too many times for historians to agree on the number.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2006/09/01/109.html (1614 words)

	Analysis: Stalingrad shapes Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Standing atop Mamayev Kurgan, the focal point of the battle of Stalingrad, it is easy to see why.
		Even now looking east from the imposing heights of Mamayev Kurgan, it is eerie to see that on the other side of the great Volga, a river as broad and impressive as the Mississippi, the embodiment of the soul of Russia, there literally is -- nothing.
		Mamayev Kurgan is a war memorial like no other on earth -- for it is dominated by an angry goddess.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1392370/posts (3730 words)

	Volgograd - Wikitravel
		Mamayev Kurgan — the site of the twentieth century's most important battle: Battle of Stalingrad.
		This huge memorial is located on top of a large hill overlooking Volgograd and the Volga River.
		The name derives from the hill's supposed status as the grave of Mamai, a famous Tatar Khan and general (kurgan is a Tatar word meaning burial mound).
	wikitravel.org /en/Volgograd (278 words)

	Kurgan - ToseekA Search Results
		The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth,...
		On the otherside the archaelogical findings in Russia (Arkaim archaelogical complex) and Ukrain (Kurgan culture) exhibit that these war culuters (horse culture) were of Indo-Iranians which is even today visible especially in Afghanistan.
		2004: The kurgans* and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.
	www.toseeka.com /subject/Kurgan (756 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com (Not Logged in)
		The dominant heights of Mamayev Kurgan were heavily fought for.
		Germany finally succeeded in steadily climbing back up the hill, where they were trapped, along with he resot of the 6th Army when the Russians launched their winter offensive.
		In all, as important as Mamayev Korgan was in attacking or defending Stalingrad, the Germans never could make full use of it, since their artillery there was in full range of the russian artillery, across the Volga, who kept the hill under near constant barrage.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /forums/ViewPost.aspx?ForumID=11&ID=5630 (1966 words)

	MIA REFERENCE SECTION - Enver Hoxha (1981): '"With Stalin" - Memoirs from my Meetings with Stalin.'
		The soil of Mamayev Kurgan was literally ploughed, and its configuration was changed many times over by the terrible bombardment.
		From the hill covered with flowers and grass it was before the famous battle of Stalingrad, it turned into a place covered with iron and steel, with the remains of tanks which had crashed into one another.
		I stopped and respectfully took a handful of earth from this hill, which is the symbol of Stalin's soldier, and later, when I returned to Albania, I donated it to the Museum of the National Liberation War in Tirana.
	www.ucc.ie /acad/socstud/tmp_store/mia_2/Library/reference/archive/hoxha/works/stalin/meet5.htm (3830 words)

	Command Security Services
		This 52 metre high work of art forms part of the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial complex, situated on the Mamayev Hill in Volgograd.
		Our task as a quality security service provider is to secure the nation against criminal injustice and the violation and abuse of persons, their assets and that of organizations and businesses in a proactive way.
		Our foundations, like that of the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial complex, are solid and unswerving in order for us to conduct our business with resolute professionalism.
	www.command.co.za /about.htm (289 words)

	The mamaev kurgan and rodimstev
		Between the 13th and the 24th the Germans plowed through the city, overtaking the center and strongholds in the north.
		the German offensive captured the Mamaev Kurgan and pushed all the way to the railway station in the center of the city.
		The railroad station was fought over by both sides and changed hands multiple times amidst the fighting, with the Russians maintaining control the night of September 17th.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/st/~colinm/sg/themamayevkurganandrodimstev.html (389 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - Sept. 13th-19th, 1942
		The German objective is a grassy hillock of parkland that dominates the center of town, called Mamayev Kurgan.
		The Mamayev Kurgan battle goes on and on all day, as Rodimtsev's men die in place, fending off 22nd Panzers.
		Battles rage at Mamayev Kurgan and the railroad station.
	www.usswashington.com /dl13se42.htm (5613 words)

	Stalingrad Battlefield Tour Prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HQ 13th Guards div, HQ of Rodimtsev, visit Stele near Mamayev Kurgan.
		T34 (Chelybinsk Kolkhoznik) Meeting point of 62nd and 21st armies on western slopes of Mamayev Kurgan.
		Victory celebrations in Red Square and on Mamayev Kurgan.
	www.stalingradtours.com /prices.htm (610 words)

	Volgograd sights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There is a place in Volgograd, most closely connected with events of the Second World War, and the Great Stalingrad Battle.
		The legend says that the name Mamayev Kurgan is linked with a name of Tatar khan Mamaj.
		The idea of construction of majestic monument, in the city-hero in memory of great battle, arose almost right after the war had ended.
	ewm.volsu.ru /dost_e.html (889 words)

	Volgograd Things to Do Tips by xenia - VirtualTourist.com
		Mamayev Kurgan: This is one more general view...
		During the Stalingrad battle Mamayev Hill was the major aim, because it is the highest point in the city.
		Mamayev Kurgan: The Mamyev Kurgan - The Everlasting Fire
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/f4bd/82c31/4 (648 words)

	Battle of Stalingrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The battles for the Red October steel factory, the Dzerzhinsky tractor factory and the Barrikady gun factory became world famous.
		The 85-meter-tall statue of Mother Motherland crowns the Mamayev Kurgan.
		After the war, in the 1960s, a colossal monument of "Mother Russia" was erected on Mamayev Kurgan, the hill overlooking the city.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Battle_of_Stalingrad.html (9380 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - Sept. 27th-Sept. 30th, 1942
		The Luftwaffe plasters the 62nd Army's bridgehead with bombs and the Soviet 95th Division's strongpoints on Mamayev Kurgan are almost obliterated by high explosive.
		Soviet guns shell Mamayev Kurgan to prevent the Germans from digging in.
		Chuikov counterattacks Mamayev Kurgan, and fails to retake the summit.
	www.usswashington.com /dl27se42.htm (3930 words)

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