Mount Sapun

44°33′10″N 33°35′00″E / 44.552879°N 33.583403°E / 44.552879; 33.583403 (Sapun-gora)

Mount Sapun
Obelisk of Glory to Soviet Warriors on Mount Sapun
Geography
Immovable Monument of National Significance of Ukraine
Official name	Меморіальний комплекс "Сапун-гора" (Mount Sapun memorial complex)
Type	History
Reference no.	270009-Н

Mount Sapun or Sapun Ridge (Russian: Сапун-Гора; Ukrainian: Сапун-гора; Crimean Tatar: Sapun dağı, Сапун дагъы) is a 240 m high ridge to the southeast of Sevastopol, situated on the Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russia.^{[citation needed]}

It became the site of heavy fighting during the siege of Sevastopol (1941-1942), and also during its liberation in 1944.^[1]

When defending Sevastopol the Soviet troops held the Sapun Ridge and could observe German movements to the city from the south.It took Wehrmacht nearly 2 weeks of heavy fighting to take control over these positions in late June 1942. As a consequence, Soviet troops had to evacuate from Crimea.^{[citation needed]}

In 2 years, on the final stage of the Crimean Offensive the assault of Sapun-gora on 7 May 1944 was successful for Red Army. On 9 May 1944, just over one month after the start of the battle, Sevastopol fell. German forces were evacuated from Sevastopol to Constanța.^{[citation needed]}

Later in 1944 the first monuments to the Soviet warriors on this place were erected, in 1959 the diorama showing the assault of the German fortifications was opened.^{[citation needed]}

• The Monuments of Sevastopol