Memorial Complex to the Soldiers and Seamen Who Died in Peaceful Time, Between Chelyuskintsev St And Prospekt Geroyev Severomortsev, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
So many lives lost one becomes numb to the extent of the tragedy called War. The flags adorning the inside of the major structure are simple but impressive. The salvaged submarine hull used as a monument in its own right is so tragic
Murmansk was also at that time an Allied air base, and was subjected to continuous, savage bombing from German held bases in Finland and Norway by aircraft trying to deny the port to the Allied supply convoys.
Most of the men who died when their ships were sunk, in the port or en route, have no grave but the sea and are commemorated on the great naval memorials at their manning ports or on the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill, but a few of them rest in this small burial ground in Murmansk.
Murmansk Russian Cemetery Extension contains 21 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. There are also five American and Polish war burials and the graves of three merchant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service.
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