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Highlights include Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Hill, Blonye Garden, Dnieper Gate and Dnieper Embankment, Gromovaya Tower, Heroes’ Memory Square, Kopytenskaya Tower and Kopytenskie Gate.

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  1. Assumption Cathedral and Cathedral Hill: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    The cathedral emerges as a refuge where a single conversation with a military commander saved people and church valuables.

  2. Blonye Garden: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    This peaceful stop will show how many years the composer's family needed to preserve his music and carry on the work that had been started.

  3. Dnieper Gate and Dnieper Embankment: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    The final stop brings together the gate, the river, and the site of the counterattack near the destroyed crossing.

  4. Gromovaya Tower: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    The altered tiers explain how the tower successively became an archive, a dormitory, and a museum.

  5. Heroes’ Memory Square: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    Here, a military necropolis, the Eternal Flame, and the fate of the man who lit it come together.

  6. Kopytenskaya Tower and Kopytenskie Gate: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    Here you will understand why damaged gate leaves still did not mean an open entrance to the fortress.

  7. Monument to the Defenders of Smolensk on the Fourth and Fifth of August, Eighteen Twelve: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    The monument marks the position held by two successive groups of Russian troops before their withdrawal.

  8. Royal Bastion: story on the “Smolensk Along the Fortress Wall: From Lopatinsky Garden to the Dnieper” route

    The earthen ramparts show what replaced the demolished towers and how this section withstood another assault.