War memorial architecture: Rossoshki military memorial cemetery,Russia

Abstract

Memorial culture has undergone fundamental changes since the II World War. In place of bombastic victors' monuments,sites arose in honor of heroically fallen soldiers. Recent memorials have in common an architecture that avoids emotional pathos of any sort by means of restraint and simple design. They possess a moral and ethical educational mission. The article is devoted to the study of the problem of the formation of new approaches to the architectural and planning organization of war memorials. The topic is revealed on the example of the military memorial cemetery "Rossoshki"near Volgograd City (former Stalingrad),consisting of two parts - the Soviet cemetery and German burial grounds. The authors examine the symbolic,architectural,planning and landscape aspects of the concepts of memorial. Particular attention is paid to the Chapel of Peace,which linked together the composition of the complex.