Champ de Mars Square

Field of Mars

russia, Saint Petersburg

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Champ de Mars Square

Field of Mars

russia, Saint Petersburg

Field of Mars is a square in the center of St. Petersburg.

At the beginning of the 18th century, to the west of the Summer Garden, there was an undeveloped area, which was called "Amusing Field" or "Big", and later "Tsaritsyn Meadow". Military parades were held in the meadow. Petrograd workers who fell during the Yaroslavl uprising on July 6-21, 1918, participants in the defense of Petrograd from the troops of General N. N. Yudenich, are buried on the Field of Mars. In 1956, the Eternal Flame was lit in the center of the memorial. In 1965, from the fire on the Field of Mars, the torch of the eternal flame was lit in Veliky Novgorod, and on May 8, 1967, the Eternal Flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

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rotaar

Traveled 11 years ago

Rating 4

It got a lot better

I walked along Marsovoy and could not understand in any way what had changed since my previous visit. Then I realized - they removed the fences around the lawns. It became great, young people hang out. Everything is like in an ordinary European city.→

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