Moscow University Chancellor Dies Inside Head of Motherland Calls Monument

A man's body was found inside the huge Stalingrad Battle Memorial, called Motherland Calls, in Volgograd, Russia, on Thursday. The website of the Vedomosti newspaper reported that he was the rector of the Moscow State Academy of Physical Education, Nikolai Chesnokov, who had a heart attack while looking inside the head of the giant statue of a woman with a raised sword that dominates the monument.

The Chancellor of the State Academy for Physical Education in Moscow died within the head of the memorial prosecutor of the Second World War, “Patria Mama called”, located in the Volgograd region of southern Russia, reported yesterday...

Moscow University Chancellor Dies Inside Head of Motherland Calls Monument

The chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education died inside the head of the towering Motherland Calls World War II memorial in southern Russia’s Volgograd region, local media reported Thursday.

Nikolai Chesnokov, President of the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture (MAAFK), died during a tour of ...

Chesnokov went with a tour group to the giant monument on Mamayev Kurgan, of which the statue is a part. He participated in the VII. All-Russian Festival of Students of Higher Education Institutions and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Military Glory in the memorial complex. During World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad took place on the hill, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, which the complex commemorates today. The…

A university rector visits the statue commemorating World War II in Volgograd – and dies in the head of “Motherland”.