The unified navigation system will tell about the participants of the military parade on Red Square in 1941. This was reported on the official website of the Mayor of Moscow.
“In honor of the Day of Military Glory on November 7, analysts from the State Budget Institute “Moscow Analytical Center in the Field of Urban Economy” (GBU “MAC”) have prepared city signs with four codes that will tell about the participants of the military parade on Red Square in 1941. By viewing them with a smartphone camera, you can learn historical facts about the heroes and get directions to worthy places remember attached to their names. Several addresses were reported in the Moscow city service complex,” the notice reads.
One of these places is the house on the Kosmodamianskaya embankment, where Semyon Budyonny, a commander, marshal and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, served as commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District. It was he who organized the military parade on November 7, 1941. Semyon Budyonny began his career in World War I, becoming one of the first marshals of the Soviet Union and commanding the 1st Cavalry Corps. After the Civil War, he participated in breeding new horse breeds and was awarded many Medals, including 8 Orders of Lenin. The marshal held honorary positions until his retirement in 1954.
In the south of the capital, on the street. Novocheremushkinskaya, there was a house in which Boris Utkin, a military and political figure, colonel and honorary citizen of Moscow, lived from 1989 to 2023. At the age of 18, he left the military parade to go to the front, the border at that time was at Khimki, near Moscow. Boris Utkin began serving in 1941 at the 1st Moscow Artillery School named after Krasin. He rose from platoon commander to division chief of staff and participated in key battles of the Great Patriotic War. After her, he served in research centers and military academies, holding high positions. He retired in 1989 with the rank of Colonel, worked as a senior researcher at the Military Encyclopedia editorial office of the Institute of Military History and participated in patriotic education for young people. In 2023, Sergei Sobyanin personally congratulated the 100th anniversary of the hero's birth and awarded the veteran the badge “Honorary Citizen of the City of Moscow”.
War correspondents are present on the battlefield with soldiers. Under fire, they wrote information reports, recorded developments and transmitted important information to the rear. Among them is Vadim Kozhevnikov – writer, journalist and war correspondent, Hero of Socialist Labor. In Moscow, he lived and worked in a house on Tverskoy Avenue. Now the city sign with code four will help you find this building. During the war, Vadim Kozhevnikov covered events on the Western Front for the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda, and from 1943, for Pravda on the 1st Ukrainian Front. He participated in the capture of Berlin and in the post-war years headed the literary and artistic department in Pravda, and from 1949 until the end of his life he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Znamya.
Nearby, on the street. Tverskaya, there is a house where Alexander Chakovsky, writer, Hero of Socialist Labor and winner of the highest state awards of the Soviet Union, lived. He made his debut as a critic and playwright, and during the war he worked as a correspondent for the Volkhov Front, covering events for the newspapers Banner of Victory and Frontovaya Pravda. After the war, Alexander Chakovsky headed the magazines “Foreign Literature” and “Literaturnaya Gazeta”.
In the Armenian lane. located is the house where Yury Nagibin, a prose writer, journalist and screenwriter lived. During the war, he volunteered for the front and as a war correspondent, he participated in important battles, including the battle of Stalingrad. His stories about the war, published in the newspaper Trud, were included in the collection “Man from the Front Line”, which made him a member of the Soviet Union of Writers. After the war, Yury Nagibin continued his journalistic activities and traveled around the country. In the west of the capital, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, there lived Alexander Tvardovsky, a writer, journalist and war correspondent, author of the poem “Vasily Terkin”. During the war, he reported on events on the front lines, and his poems became symbols of courage and patriotism.
Near the Gaidar Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth there is a monument to Arkady Gaidar, a writer, journalist and war correspondent who wrote about Soviet children. During the war, he worked at Komsomolskaya Pravda and died in 1941 while participating in a partisan detachment. The monument was erected in 1974 and depicts the writer in military uniform talking to children.
The program to create a unified navigation system began in 2014. During this time, more than 120 thousand new city and housing signs appeared in the city, helping residents and visitors of the capital navigate the city. Since 2020, experts from the State Budget Institute “MAC” have been implementing a project on historical and patriotic navigation.
