Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill is one of the largest memorial complexes in Russia and in the world, the area of ​​which is 135 hectares, dedicated to victory in the Great Patriotic War. Located in the Western Administrative District of Moscow. It was opened May 9, 1995 to the 50th anniversary of the Great Victory. Poklonnaya Gora, on the site of which the park is located, was first mentioned in the Chronicle of Bykhovets dated 1368. It is known that in 1612 the hetman Zholkevsky stopped on Poklonnaya Hill, to which a delegation arrived from Moscow with the intentions of seizing the Polish prince Vladislav on the Tsar’s throne, in September 1812 Napoleon was waiting for Moscow boyars with the keys to the Kremlin on Mount.