Kirchhof

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Kirchhof is a hill in the Lomonosov district of Leningrad Province, east of Duderhof, in the southern suburbs of St. Petersburg.

Kirchhoff Mountain differs from Crow Mountain in that it is much less overgrown on the slopes. It is assumed that the mountain used to be higher, but because of rubble mining its height has decreased.

The mountain got its name from the Holy Trinity Church on the top, which was built in the 1660s. Severely destroyed during the Second World War, by the 1950s it was dismantled for civil engineering. In 1998 on the site of the foundations of the church and on the eastern slope of the mountain was built ski elevator center for active recreation Tuutari Park. Fragments of the foundation of the church and a few tombstones from the old churchyard remain. On the eastern slope of the mountain there is also an old Finnish cemetery with iron forged crosses.

At the foot of Kirchhoff Mountain in July-September 1941 were located guns number 4, 5, 6, 7 of the artillery battery special purpose "Aurora". They took their last battle on September 11, 1941.

Coordinates: 59°41'39"N, 30°10'12"E

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