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Monument in honor of the defense of the capital in 1941 in the form of symbolic anti-tank hedgehogs is on the right side of the Leningrad highway on the way to Moscow near shopping malls

The monument is located near the Leningrad Highway and reminds passing through such important pages of history as the defense of Moscow.

In the terrible autumn days and nights of 1941, when the enemy was torn to the capital, Moscow and the Moscow region worked selflessly, creating a whole system of mutually complementary powerful defensive fortifications. They were meant to protect the boundaries of the city, which became an impregnable fortress.

In December 1966, here, at the northwest gate of Moscow, this unique monument was solemnly opened . And now three steel anti-tank hedgehogs rise amid the peaceful near Moscow field . The stern and restrained composition of the monument is very expressive . It embodies the idea of ​​the inaccessibility of the military frontier of Moscow in the troubled days of autumn 1941 . At the foot of the hedgehogs, whose size reaches 6 meters, a map of the capital's defense is depicted on a stone block- made of colored glass and ceramics . The text of the Sovinformburo's report of December 6, 1941 on the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops near Moscow was carved on the stone .

Schoolchildren laying flowers at the monument to the defenders of Moscow

Address: Moscow, Leningradskoye shosse, 23rd km.