26.04.2025
Sixteen students and representatives from RSUH took part in a Victory Day motor rally along the "Moscow – Rzhev" route, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The road trip consisted of four stages: first, the students toured the Holy Assumption Monastery, the only fully restored monastery in the diocese. It houses the tomb of the first Russian Patriarch, Job, who was exiled to Staritsa by the order of False Dmitry I, as well as the relics of his mysterious mother Pelageya. In the village of Polunino, students visited the Museum of Military Glory and laid flowers at the "Mass Grave" memorial, where 12,500 soldiers who had defended the settlement for three long weeks are buried.
The next stop was the "Stalin’s Headquarters" museum. It is located in a small blue house where, in August 1943, a meeting had taken place between Joseph Stalin and intelligence officer Ivan Serov. Marshal Andrei Yeremenko had also visited this place to report to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the Smolensk offensive operation. It was here that the decision was made to hold the first artillery salute on August 5, 1943, in honor of the liberation of Orel and Belgorod from the Nazis.
The final stop of the rally was the Rzhev Memorial to the Soviet Soldier, a monument opened in 2018 based on a project by Russian architect Konstantin Fomin.
