In Horodyshche district of the Volgograd region located Military Memorial Cemetery Rossoshka. The initiative belonged to the opening of the memorial complex Gorodishchenskaya Council of Veterans, and the funds for the construction of historic buildings allocated People's Union of Germany. Named memorial on behalf of two villages - large and small Rossoshka, located on the site of the cemetery until 1942.
After the Battle of Stalingrad ispepelёnnye Rossoshka served as the burial place of German soldiers. In 1992, an agreement signed between Russia and Germany on the care of war graves and in May 1999 opened War Memorial complex in Rossoshka. Care and maintenance of prefabricated cemetery carried out by voluntary donation of the German people.
Military memorial complex consists of two parts of the field, separated by the road, in various parts of which are located the Soviet and German cemetery. One field was the burial place of more than a hundred and fifty thousand dead soldiers on both sides. The central composition of the Soviet cemetery steel sculpture "Mourning", made by sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov Volgograd. A copy of the sculpture is located at the Royal Museum in Britain. The figure of a woman represents the grief, and the bell without a tongue in his raised hands - silence. At the entrance to the Soviet part of the cemetery are two walls inscribed with lines of Vladimir Vysotsky.
In the center of the German cemetery is a memorial to the memory area of the black cross. A huge mass grave has the shape of a cylinder height of 3, 5 meters and a diameter of more than 150 meters. Some of the names of 120 thousand graves, which were able to establish knocked on granite slabs in the walls of the mass grave. Near the mass grave are granite cubes with the names missing.
A little further from the towering memorial granite stele in memory of the two villages of civilians killed in the fighting. A few meters from the village cemetery (the place of the Soviet POW camp) memorial sign in the form of a pyramid with a soldier's helmet and barbed wire, with the text "died, but did not change the oath."
For cleanliness and tidiness of the Military Memorial Cemetery Rossoshka watches specially created company.
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