Malakhov Kurgan in the memory of generations

The ship's side is the working area of Sevastopol, its southeastern part.
It is here that Malakhov Kurgan is covered with legends - one of the strategically most important heights of the city. This elevation name was first recorded on the maps of Sevastopol in the distant 1851. It is named after the naval officer M.M. Malakhov, who since 1827 lived near the mound, enjoyed the respect of ordinary people who lived and served in this part of the city.

Malakhov Kurgan played an important role in both the historic defense of Sevastopol: in the Crimean War of 1854-1855 and in the war against the fascists. The fighting here was going heavy, bloody. During the defense of the city, Admiral Nakhimov PS and Admiral Kornilov VA received mortal wounds on the mound. Admiral Istomin VI also died in the vicinity of the burial mound. Their memory is immortalized by descendants: the monument to Nakhimov stands near the Count's pier on one From three squares in the center of the city; The monument to Kornilov was erected on Malakhov Kurgan; The place of Istomin's death is also marked by a monument. As the most important point of defense of the city on the ship side, where there was a lot of heroic and tragic, Malakhov Kurgan keeps the memory of all the dead here. The symbol of this is the mass grave at the beginning of the main avenue, where both Russian and French soldiers are buried, who died in the last battle on the mound, which occurred on August 27, 1855.

The heroic defense of Sevastopol put Malakhov Kurgan in the number of places of historical, commemorative, worthy of the deepest respect and veneration.

No less significant role played Malakhov Kurgan and in the second defense of the city: until June 1942 from here the artillery battery of Senior Lieutenant Matyukhin AP was firing at enemies. More than two dozen monuments and memorial signs on the mound recalls the heroism of the defenders of Sevastopol.

The history of events during both defense of the city is kept by numerous museums of Sevastopol. The most famous of them and popular among Sevastopol residents and guests of the city is the only panorama in Ukraine dedicated to the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855. It is a grandiose pictorial canvas 14 by 115 meters, supplemented by a subject plan, the area of which is almost 1000 square meters. In the center of the building is a round viewing platform, passing through which, visitors of the museum, as if being on Malakhov Kurgan, watch a picture of the intense battle that took place on June 6, 1855.

The heroism of defenders and liberators of the city during the Second World War is dedicated to the diorama of the storming of the Sapun Mountain on May 7, 1944, where a canvas of 5.5 meters in length and 25.5 meters long depicts the offensive of the 51st Primorsky Army on Mount Sapun. The supplementary picture of the object plan with an area of more than 80 square meters is enemy weapons and equipment, fragments of defensive structures delivered from the battlefields for Sevastopol.

Another museum that enjoys the constant love of sailors and city residents is the Museum of the Black Sea Fleet, which stores numerous relics and testimonies of the history of the origin and development of the fleet, the memory of people who created it and brought it eternal glory.