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On the eve of the battle between the Yakivchansky and Malobudishchansky forests, the soldiers of the Moscow army built 10 redoubts on the path of the Swedes' advance. They had the appearance of quadrangular earthen fortifications, surrounded by ramparts and ditches. The length of each side of the redoubt was about 50 m, the distance between the structures - about 300 m. By the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, the locations of all ten redoubts were marked with concrete obelisks. The author of these structures is a military engineer, lieutenant colonel H. Lagorio. The obelisks had a pyramidal appearance, were made of concrete and faced with marble slabs. In 1939, the old obelisks were replaced by new granite obelisks (architect M. Yevtushevskyi). On the concrete ones, and then on the granite ones, there were inscriptions indicating which redoubt they were located on. The obelisk is a four-sided granite column of three blocks that tapers upwards. Its height with the base is 4.6 m.
1909
In 1953, the second redoubt of the transverse line was reconstructed in life size, and in 2009 – the third redoubt of the transverse line.
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