: The bottom of the soldier's figure appears to dissolve into a flock of flying cranes , a powerful symbol of fallen warriors in Russian culture derived from the poem Zhuravli .
: The approach to the statue is flanked by broken steel walls laser-cut with the names of over 17,000 soldiers killed in the battles.
: A striking 25-meter-high bronze statue of a soldier in a Red Army uniform.
: The complex is built on an artificial 10-meter mound at the site of the fierce Rzhev–Vyazma offensive. It was funded through public donations and support from the Union States of Russia and Belarus.