On Guards Avenue Kaliningrad, where the military parades, the monument in 1200 guards. The monument is a mass grave of the 11th Guards Army soldiers who died during the storming of Koenigsberg. Monument guards - is the work of Moscow Architects SS Nanushyan and ID Melchakova, six Lithuanian sculptors, which included B.Petrauskas, P.Vayvada and R.Yakimavichus and project leader Juozas Mikėnas.

Monument to 1200 guardsmen opened in September 30, 1945, was the first Soviet monument in yet renamed Koenigsberg. The decision to immortalize the feat of the Soviet soldiers was made immediately after the Victory (May 1945), the Military Council of the 11th Army, and the order of the reburial of the soldiers in the mass grave was signed by Colonel General KN Galitsky. A year later, near the monument installed sculptural composition "Victory" (sculptor Juozas Mikėnas) and "Storm". In celebration of the anniversary of the Victory in 1960 before the monument was lit an eternal flame. In 1995, in the vicinity of the monument was built an orthodox chapel (Ausfalskie gate) in memory of the fallen soldiers during the assault.

The monument is located in the 1200 guardsmen dammed part of Victory Park in the square oval. The dominant monument - a 26-meter obelisk in the form of a five-pointed star with seven stone belt. On the sides of the obelisk are reliefs depicting the medals, medals, weapons and composition of combat scenes. Along the walls of the square are four marble tombstone with a list of names of dead soldiers. Also mounted pedestals and two obelisks of heroes of the Soviet Union. Wall of rusticated granite blocks decorated with bas-reliefs and sixteen marble slabs with the names of the fallen.