Height of Immortality

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Height of Immortality
Native name Высота бессмертия (Russian)
Location of Height of Immortality in Russia
Location	Belaya Kalitva, Rostov oblast Russia
Built	1967

The Height of Immortality is a World War II memorial founded in 1967 in the settlement of Atayevo near the city of Belaya Kalitva.

The complex commemorates the soldiers of a cavalry squadron of the 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division, led by Lieutenant Annaklych Atayev. Atayev's squadron defended a hill on the outskirts of Belaya Kalitva against a German infantry battalion supported by tanks and artillery during the fighting to liberate the town in January 1943 during World War II. Killed in the fighting, Atayev was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union and his soldiers posthumously received the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.^[1]

Initially, the memorial consisted of three steles and an eternal flame. On the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II, a sculpture of a grieving woman representing the Motherland with a laurel wreath in her hand was placed between the steles.^[1] Memorial stones inscribed with the names of the soldiers killed in the fighting are placed in a semicircle, and the inscription "In memory of the fallen – be worthy" runs through entire memorial.

The memorial is the site of annual 9 May commemorations of Victory Day.^[2]