Удивительное место. Когда начинаешь там работать, смотришь, пытаешься...

Amazing place. When you start working there, you look, try to understand the logic of events, guess what the hole or trench is hiding. Behind the nondescript traces, there is a picture of a difficult military life for three years, a picture of battles, death, heroism, hatred, important historical events and small, personal stories. The ruins of the Klinovsky houses, dugouts, trenches, craters, trenches ... The park is filled with all this. And sometimes more than just an object is guessed behind these tracks. The chain of events is guessed. So today, examining the site in the center of the park with Anya Akimova, we came across ... well, everything is in order. First, we watched the remains of the mill, greatly disturbed by the "blacks". Then we went deep into the bushes (one friend of mine very accurately calls them "khmyzniki"). "Caught" in the trench. We marked its beginning on the map and photographed it. Then vidm - on the trench, an extension filled with water, in front of the remains of a roller. Apparently a machine gun point. We look around. And from the depths, from the shadows "appear", funnels become visible. We counted nine. And these are only the largest ones. And it becomes clear: there was a tough battle here. That is, there were battles everywhere in Polezhaevsky. But here we see traces of a specific event, the echo of ruptures thunders in our ears, shouts are heard, faces covered with smoke are visible ... Now they are building a machine-gun point, here comes the calculation. But the shelling began from the German side (there is now a hospital, and then a cinema). The breaks are getting closer. What happened next - who knows. But the cell itself is not broken by the gap. Maybe they didn't.

So it "breathed" on us with history, great events. It is very cool to walk and read like a book this abandoned piece of land. Come to us. We will wander there for another month. And then? Who knows what will happen next. There are plans to develop the park. I'm afraid they will come true sooner or later. And all this "chronicle in the landscape" will remain only in our photos.

Thanks to those who help work on the project: Anya Karaseva, Ana Averyanova, Vlad Ustinov, Ana Akimova.

This point



And here are the funnels






It can be seen, of course, not very much, but when you come and look closely, believe me, it takes your breath away.










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Yuri Vizbor - On the Mga River