happened: 27.07.02-07.08.02
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Because my english is - let us say - not soo good, i will only show many pics, and try to explain a little bit about. Hope you have fun....
| Interessting things, you can find a lot of in Russia. An example ? "Welcome to CCCP" |
!!! NEW !!! DOWNLOAD "Volgograd impression movie" |
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| Of course old Leninstatues and pictures are possible to find ... ... and not so hard to find ... |
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| And other, very strange looking statues, i was able to find, too: | |
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| This picture was taken in top of "Kaukasus"-Mountains. Very nice place. Have to visit. |
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| ... two other strange statues ... | |
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| CLICK FOR PANORAMA !! (JAVA has to be activated) Move mouse, while pressing left button. To zoom in, hold SHIFT (zoom out with STRG+left button) or use the menue ! |
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| The way to Soci (the town, we visited on black sea) was very long. But we had a good driver .... and fast ... |
but i couldn´t understand, why Vladimir so often stopped, to talk with some friends ..
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| ... and belive me, Vladimir has a lot of friends in russia ... ;-) | |
| On the road to black see, we saw some very interessting places, like Tazinskaja... | |
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... on this former german airport for supplying the german 6th Army in Stalingrad area, the germans lost 58 airplanes (mainly JU 52/Luftflotte 4), because of stupid order to stay in line since Red Army arrives ... Only 108 JU 52 an 16 JU 88 where transferred to safety in Nowotscherkassk...If the Red Army goes more quickly into the Airport, at this foggy night of 24/12/42 all 180 airplaines would be lost ... CLICK PIC FOR PANORAMA !! |
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OK, now quickly some photos from black see, then back to Volgograd area, Rossoschka and .... more ... |
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| CLICK TO GET PANO !! | |
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| Now we arrived at the "Panorama Museum in Wolgograd. Here a panoramoview from this plattform over the Wolga : |
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Click into picture and a new window with the panoramaapplet will open. (JAVA has to be activated) |
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| Inside of museum: | Very interessting. Volgograd in ´43 time ... |
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| After thias very interessting event, we go on to "Mamajew Kurgan" ... Hight 102 ... | |
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| View from Mamajew Hill to Red October District .. | |
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| Rossoschka ... | |
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| 21.003 german names written here ... ... still new names coming through ... |
russian soldiers ... |
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| Unbelivalble: Easy to find relicts without digging !! | |
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| used ARI-Cartridges | used Mauser Cartridges, mainly MG-Nest |
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| ARI-Shell | Field-bed |
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| Here you easy can see former trenches ... | |
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| Same area some earlier from airplane .. | |
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| After that, we go to DON-River... | |
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| ... only for swimming, and meet some friends... | |
| Frank and Patrik : Shall i belive ? | |
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After: completely destroyed. Remember nothing. DON RIVER? What´s that ? |
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| Now some more inpressions of Volgograd: | |
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| Here last Panoapplet: Tatarwall located near Gorodistsche... | |
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