Customs officers honoured fallen Soviet soldiers at the memorial “To Those Who Stood to the Death in the Battle for Moscow, 1941” at a railway crossing between the Minsk and Kiev highways near Krekshino, Moscow Region, and visited Victory Park there. Source: Central Excise Customs (CAT).
The memorial was erected for the 60th anniversary of Victory. During the defensive phase of the Battle for Moscow, Soviet forces lost more than half a million wounded and about 144,000 killed. Field hospitals operated in nearly every nearby settlement; from 21 October to 31 December 1941 mobile field hospital No. 2261 worked in Krekshino village.
Victory Park adjoins the memorial and contains the graves of soldiers who died of wounds in that hospital. The park is a special place for Krekshino residents and for Moscow and the wider region — each year veterans, their families and others who care about the country’s history gather here for Victory Day.