Monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilevsky was erected near the building of the Ministry of Defense of Russia

A monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilevsky was unveiled on the Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow near the building of the RF Ministry of Defense. The ceremony took place on December 4.

The opening ceremony was attended by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Assistant to the President of Russia, Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky, who addressed the audience.

The monument was created by sculptors from Grekov's studio; it is a figure of a marshal in field uniform with an overcoat draped over his shoulder. Vasilevsky sits at his desk over a map of military operations. A lamp on the table lights up at nightfall and illuminates the marshal's desk.

As the head of the Ministry of Defense said at the opening of the composition, Vasilevsky planned many operations of the Great Patriotic War, which brought closer the complete defeat of the Nazi troops. He was a talented employee of the General Staff and an operations planner, many of whom are included in textbooks and are still being studied.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky Alexander Mikhailovich (30.09.1895/5.12.1977/1945 - 3/XNUMX/XNUMX) - Soviet commander, chief of the General Staff, member of the Supreme Command Headquarters, commander-in-chief of the Main Command of Soviet troops in the Far East, Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR and Minister of War of the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he led the General Staff, took part in the planning and development of almost all major operations of the Red, and then the Soviet armies against the Nazi invaders. In XNUMX he commanded the XNUMXrd Belorussian Front, led the assault on Koenigsberg.

Comments

[Carat]

Vasilevsky earned a monument only for his work as the chief of the General Staff.

[Crowe]

I join - a worthy man and military leader!
We did a good job!

[Ross xnumx]

Father (Vasily Mikhailovich) in the "demobilization album" on the first page had a portrait of Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky. When I asked: "Is this uncle your brother?" He replied: "This uncle was the Minister of the USSR Armed Forces."
If I'm not mistaken, the photo is like this:

[210ox]

Maphala's name is immortalized. And that is great. The Military Air Defense Academy in Smolensk also bears the name of this remarkable military leader.

[svp67]

And it's great that we remembered that in that war we had other Victory commanders, and not just one Zhukov ...
Here in Yekaterinburg, another monument was opened to him, near the headquarters of the Central Military District, in honor of the date of the arrival of Marshal Zhukov to command the Ural Military District ...

[faiver]

Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky

- well, nowhere without him, and what is most important to him, it does not matter to whom monuments or memorial plaques to put, that Mannerheim or Vasilevsky.

And where is the monument to Generalisimo Stalin, who took over the country with a plow, and handed it over with an atomic bomb and a gold reserve of 2000 tons?

[svp67]

Quote: faiver

And where is the monument to Generalisimo Stalin, who took over the country with a plow, and handed it over with an atomic bomb and a gold reserve of 2000 tons

On the Alley of the rulers of Russia in Moscow, near the RVIO building

[faiver]

bust among others, and even next to the Judaist Nikita ...

[svp67]

Quote: faiver

and besides

So what? And he was also among the Rulers

[faiver]

it is rather not a monument, but a bust list ...

[210ox]

There is also next to Lenin ...

[Carat]

Quote: 210ox

There is also next to Lenin ...

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

Quote: faiver

And where is the monument to Generalisimo Stalin, who took over the country with a plow, and handed it over with an atomic bomb and a gold reserve of 2000 tons?

I apologize in advance and humbly, but if you please go to ... ooo.
Such a significant and joyful event, but no, you definitely need to groan.
Once again I apologize.

[faiver]

Well, I won't apologize.

I apologize in advance and humbly, but if you please go to ... ooo.

- Only after you...

[tihonmarine]

Quote: faiver

And where is the monument to Generalisimo Stalin, who took over the country with a plow, and handed it over with an atomic bomb and a gold reserve of 2000 tons?

As well as there is no monument to Rokossovsky and Konev. There were Stalin and four lumps - Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Konev, Vasilevsky.

[volodimer]

That is:

In my opinion, it is quite well-known.
And Medinsky ...

[Fisherman]

Cool monument! The lamp glows green at night ... very impressive. Lads!

[mongolian9999]

Passed by this monument yesterday. Worthy.

[Alex Justice]

Vasilevsky is head and shoulders above Zhukov and Konev, but for some reason he is always in the shadows.

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

And what did you like to measure?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Sergey Alexandrovich

And what did you like to measure?

As always - "yardstick" measures, in vain he is so.

[210ox]

Vasilevsky was initially in the shadows. In the shadow of His Majesty's Headquarters and Headquarters .. He entered the stage in the winter of 1945, as the commander of the 3rd Belorussian, after the death of Chernyakhovsky. And then in the Far East.

[voyaka uh]

With the arrival of Vasilevsky in the General Staff, calm, professional planning of operations began.
The hysterics, obscenities and jaws of Zhukov disappeared.
Vasilevsky is one of the best Soviet military leaders in the Second World War.

[Alex Justice]

Vasilevsky is the best, but Zhukov got the laurels.

[Konnick]

Vasilevsky is the best, but Zhukov got the laurels.

The best Stalin.

[voyaka uh]

From late 42 to March 45, Zhukov was not allowed to interfere with the planning of operations at the General Staff.
But Zhukov was an experienced schemer. Before Berlin, he fussed ahead of Stalin in time, pressed Konev and Rokossovsky and took the laurels of a winner in the war.
Then Beria pressed him with a "trophy case".
As a pensioner, Zhukov relaxed, and the recordings of his conversations with the writer Konstantin Simonov provide a lot of useful information about the war.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Alex Justice

Vasilevsky is the best, but Zhukov got the laurels.

This is what the whole world knows, and let the descendants remember. "For better or worse" -

conversation of children.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

Quote: tihonmarine

... children's conversation.

Vlad, I totally agree with you! It is a stupid argument to find out who is the best among the Soviet military leaders. ALL, Stalin, Zhukov, Konev, Rokossovsky and, by the way, some and many others were each best IN YOUR PLACE.

And the monument to Vasilevsky is wonderful. And they came up with a great table lamp. I have known Vasilevsky's name since childhood. My parents were from Vichuga, and when we came to visit relatives on Moskovskaya Street on vacation, my father, an officer, often pointing to a high church beyond the field, said: "This is Golchikha. Marshal Vasilevsky was born there."

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Vladimir Mashkov

Vlad, I totally agree with you! It is a stupid argument to find out who is the best among the Soviet military leaders. EVERYONE, Stalin, Zhukov, Konev, Rokossovsky and, by the way, some and many others were each the best IN THEIR PLACE.

I agree, but it is necessary to erect monuments to all the heroes, both Zhukov and Rokossovsky: both to Konev and others, they all deserve it, but why selectively, why did we forget others? Or our memory is selective.
Maybe someone will put my Smolensk compatriot Yegorov and the Georgian Kantaria.
I am disgusted when they erect monuments to Yeltsin.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

Quote: tihonmarine

... but you need to erect monuments to all the heroes ...

Totally agree with you. Why is this not being done? Do not know. I am glad that they began to erect monuments to Joseph Vissarionovich.
Monuments to Yeltsin, Solzhenitsyn, Mannerheim, Chapaev's killer I consider a shame. The monstrous "Alyonka" and "Clay" I consider either a lack of intelligence, taste or hype.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Vladimir Mashkov

Monuments to Yeltsin, Solzhenitsyn, Mannerheim, Chapaev's murderer I consider a shame.

They are being etched out of our souls, our heroes, they are imposing people alien to Russia. We still remember what children and grandchildren will remember when they see only the Yeltsins and the Solzhenitsyn and Kornilov.

[Vladimir Mashkov]

Quote: tihonmarine

what children and grandchildren will remember

Well, someone is erecting monuments to Vasilevsky and Stalin even now. I hope there will always be decent people.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Vladimir Mashkov

Well, someone is erecting monuments to Vasilevsky and Stalin even now. I hope there will always be decent people.

There will always be worthy people, but will those in power give them monuments? Under Yeltsin, there were such, but it was forbidden to erect monuments. Well at least they didn't erect a monument to Margaret Albright.

[midivan]

and Assistant to the President of Russia, Chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladimir Medinsky,

Medinsky would have to hang a "board to Marnayheim" on his chest and give him a kick, and not invite such monuments to be opened ...

[Kaw]

Monument to the next brilliant chief who fought the entire war in his office and as a result of whose brilliant leadership there was an unimaginable ratio of Soviet and German losses. IMHO.
In besieged Leningrad, there lived a cook who, during the siege, distributed bread among the population and died of hunger, so (in my opinion) a monument to him was only erected in the cemetery.

[Magadan1]

Vasilevsky was lucky that he did not live up to our times and does not see everything that is happening now.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Magadan1

Vasilevsky was lucky that he did not live up to our times and does not see everything that is happening now.

Ivan Kozhedub, this could not stand it.

[Radical]

Monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilevsky was erected near the building of the Ministry of Defense of Russia

Without belittling the merits of the marshal, but in fairness, it might be worth creating a group ensemble of figures of the chiefs of the General Staff of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War - Shaposhnikov, the same Zhukov, Antonov .... After all, they all, at different times in this position, adequately fulfilled these duties! Is not it so?

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Radikal

Without belittling the merits of the marshal, but in fairness, maybe it was worth creating a group ensemble of figures of the chiefs of the General Staff of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War

It is necessary to create an "Ensemble

Quote: Radikal

Without belittling the merits of the marshal, but in fairness, maybe it was worth creating a group ensemble of figures of the chiefs of the General Staff of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War

It is necessary to create a "Pantheon of Heroes" there will be monuments and all the names of the heroes.
They built a pantheon for Yeltsin, which should not be in Russia, but in Washington.