belopolsky calculated that if you and i are standing on the square, we will stand to the death at theen the mother’s homeland from that point is absolutely not visible what symbol the people warrior closes the motherland with them the authors of the memorial motherland motherland sculptor evgeniy vuchetich and engineer nikolai nikitin the statue is the compositional center of the monument of the ensemble hero the battle of stalingrad is one of the tallest monuments in the world. the height of the statue with a sword is 85 m, weight - 8,000 tons. on the mamayev kurgan there is the largest mass grave, where the remains of the defenders of the volga borders were transferred. the city was being upset, being restored, many mass graves were not registered, and the graves were everywhere, in the courtyards of houses, schools, the city had to be built, that is, the graves could not be stopped and were moved here, moved... until the opening of the monument to the ensemble. the very first mass grave appeared on mamayev kurgan immediately after the end of the battle in 1943, next to it in 1995 t