Project managers: V.N. Philippov, architects: Professor V.I. Mukhin, Chief Architect of Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “DARSI” V.V. Smolin, Candidate of Architecture E.E. Lavrushin.
The sign was established at the Cathedral of St. Sophia on June 10, 2003. It is the first of a set of signs at the locations of military units and forces of the Russian Army. It was blessed by Metropolitan of St Petersburg and Ladoga. The sign is a three-level composition. A porcelain symbol of the regiment is on the front face of the pyramid. Bronze boards with description of the regiment and the battle logbook are on the side faces. A bronze board with a sculptured relief illustrating the triumphant entry of the regiment to Paris in 1814 is on the back side. An emblem of the Russian Army made of gold plated porcelain is on the central square face.

A column initially named Siberian Column was erected at the border of the Babolovsky Park in 1777. The column was erected in memory of integration of the Crimea and Russia according to the Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji concluded at the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 – 1774.
The 15 meters high column was made of a single piece of Uralian marble and transported to St. Petersburg on a cart pulled by 120 horses. Trophies decorative composition was made by artist G.I. Kozlov upon legalization of the integration of the Crimea and Russia in 1783.
The composition includes Turkish banners, crescents, and arms. It was made at the Petersburg state bronze casting factory.
On October 22, 1785, the composition was mounted to the column and the column was named the Crimean Column.

The monument to the victims of the genocide of the Jews who were residing in Pushkin, is situated at the intersection of Dvortsovaya Street and Moskovskaya Street. The monument was inaugurated on October 13, 1991 in the year of the 50th anniversary of the mass shooting of Jewish residents of Pushkin that was occupied by Hitler’s army in the autumn of 1941. At that time more than a thousand Jews were shot in the territory of the Alexander Park and the Babolovsky Park.
The monument was erected at the initiative of the members of the Jewish Association of St. Petersburg: the Holocaust Investigation Group (G. Farber, A. Frenkel, L. Kolton) and the office of Narod Moy, the construction was financed by citizens of St. Petersburg, foreign Jewish organizations, benefit concerts of A. Rozenbaum and the Leningrad Soloists chamber ensemble headed by M. Ganvarg. The memorial was designed by architect B. Beyder free of charge. The Formula of Grief by sculptor V. Sidur was made at the Monumentskulptura Factory. The model was made by sculptor A. Pozin free of charge.

The Guard (Naval) Company was the first guards unit of the Russia Navy. It was established in February 16 (27), 1810 on the basis of the Rowing Company established by Peter the First in 1710. The Guard Company consisted of four line units, an artillery company and a musical company (total 410 people). The Company took part in the Patriotic War of 1812. A group of volunteers of the Guard Company together with the Life-Guards Foresters Regiment negated the attack of the enemy’s division at Borodino Village and took out a bridge across the Kolocha River in the Battle of Borodino. In August 1813, the Guard Company received the St. George Banner for courage and bravery demonstrated at Kulm.
Cruiser Oleg, destroyer Voyskovoy, and destroyer Ukraina were equipped by personnel of the Guard Company during the First World War of 1914-1918.

The Kazanskoye Cemetery is a historic and cultural heritage site. It was established by order of Catherine the second in 1784. The Church of Our Lady of Kazan in the Kazanskoye Cemetery was designed by architect G. Quarenghi. It was consecrated in 1790. In 1809, Sophia Town and Tsarskoye Selo were integrated and the cemetery became the municipal cemetery. There is a rotunda shaped tomb containing 27 funeral niches under the church. Commander of Life-Guards Hussar Regiment N.F. Plautin and the Chief Officer of the Tsarskoselsky Palace Administration Leontyev were buried here. Veterans of the War of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 were buried here.

The Life-Guards 2nd Rifle Battalion was established on March 27, 1856 on the basis of the rifle companies of the 2nd Guard Division. The Battalion was made a part of the Old Guard and given all rights and privileges of the Old Guard.
The Battalion was headquartered in the territory of the former uyezd town of Sophia in single-storey wooden barracks on Pavlovskoye Highway.
In 1910, the Life-Guards 2nd Rifle Battalion was reformed into the Life-Guards 2nd Tsarskoselsky Rifle Regiment.
The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh designed by architect A.G. Uspensky was built in 1904. The construction was financed by Moscow merchant I.A. Protopopov. In 1910, the Church became the Regiment Church.
The Life-Guards 2nd Tsarskoselsky Rifle Regiment was discontinued as a military unit of the Russian Army in April of 1918.

The platform at the 21st kilometer.
Here was a contact point between the 42nd and the 55th armies that were defending Leningrad along the south-eastern and the south-western lines. The contact point is marked by a pyramidal hill with two antitank guns standing on various height back slabs. A reinforced concrete block with the inscription “This was the main line of Soviet Army’s defense. 1941-1944” is mounted into a hill side.
The memorial was inaugurated in 1968.
It was designed by architects E.D.
Bychkov and N.N. Karasev.

“Great Russian marine painter and historiographer of the Russian Fleet A.P. Bogolyubov studied here in the Marine Company of the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps for minors in 1832-1835 and 1838-1840.”
A.P. Bogolyubov tried to make his works realistic and true in terms of history. He presented two of his works (Battle of Gangut and Breaking of the Russian Galley Fleet through the Swedish Lines at Cape Gangut) to Alexander II in May of 1877. He visited theatres of war operations during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 - 1878 to paint pictures.
He was awarded the I, II, and III Class Order of St. Ann, the IV Class Order of St. Vladimir, the II Class Order of St. Stanislav, the National Order of the Legion of Honour.

“Great Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov served here in the Life Guard Hussar Regiment in 1834-1837 and 1838-1840.”
Almost all men of the ancient house of the Lermontovs were military men. Following the tradition M. Lermontov entered the School of Guard Warrant Officers and Cavalry Pupils in 1832. Two years later Cornet Lermontov arrived to the Life Guard Hussar Regiment in Tsarskoye Selo to continue his service. The plate in commemoration of great poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, a brave officer and the true patriot was mounted on one of the buildings of the Leningrad Higher Naval Engineering Academy (a former barrack of the Life Guard Hussar Regiment) on July 27, 1991. It was funded by officers and cadets of the Academy.

“Outstanding Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin studied here in the Marine Company of the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps for minors in 1850-1853”
Vasily Vereshchagin was born on October 14, 1842. He and his brother entered the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps for minors in Tsarskoye Selo in 1850.
He successfully graduated from the Alexandrovsky Cadet Corps and continued his studies in the Marine Cadet Corps.
His achievements were rewarded by awarding military ranks.
V. Vereshchagin felt that he was an artist by avocation. He left the military service and gave up a career of a naval officer. Realistic battle-pieces brought him glory of a great artist.
The blast of armor-plated ship Petropavlovsk in Port Arthur in 1904 killed V.V. Vereshchagin.

A 5 meters high granite obelisk with the inscription “Glory to the heroes who died in combats for the Motherland. 1941 - 1945” stands on a hill. The monument is made of marble and granite. It is surrounded with 40 headstones with the names of the soldiers who were fighting at this line. The cemetery is under the patronage of the Shushary State Farm, the Lensovetsky State Farm, PMK-14, and ATP 3176.

The Model Training Battalion was established in Tsarskoye Selo in 1826.
The Model Infantry Battalion prepared instructors in equipment, all types of rifled weapons, manuals, arrangement of garrison and guard service, and uniform and gear wearing, caretaking and fitting rules. In May of 1827 the Battalion was reformed into the Model Infantry Regiment and was quartered in Sophia, Tsarskoye Selo. The barracks and the outbuildings of the Regiment were located between Gusarskaya and Ogorodnaya Streets. The Sophia parade ground was located nearby. On March 21, 1882, the Model Infantry Training Battalion was reformed into the Officer Small Arms School.

Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev (1830 – 1945), Lieutenant General, Hero of the Soviet Union, Military Engineer, Scientist, Professor, Doctor of Military Science. He graduated from the Siberian Cadet Corps, the Nikolayevskoye School of Military Engineering and the Nikolayevskaya Academy of Military Engineering. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and the First World War. Lieutenant Colonel. He took part in the construction of the Brest Fortress (1911 – 1914). He was the Chief Engineer of the 5th army at the Eastern Front and an Assistant Chief Engineer at the Southern Front during the Patriotic War.
He was heavily contused and captured in the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. He was tortured and killed at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in 1945.

I.V. Khazov was the commander of the 110th infantry corps of the 42nd army of the Leningrad Front. He took part in the lifting of the siege of Leningrad. He was killed in the battles of the Velikaya River.

It is a monument of military glory commemorating the victories of the Russian marine corps under the command of Count F.G. Orlov in the Russo-Turkish War on the Morea Peninsula (Mediterranean Sea). In January 1771, people of 25 island of the archipelago became citizens of Russia. In memory of that and as an example for the future generations Catherine the Great ordered to erect the Morea Column in Tsarskoye Selo (also called Small Rostral Column). The ship bows (rostra) evidence that the victory was gained with the help of the fleet.
The Morea Column designed by architect A. Rinaldi was erected in the Catherine Park on October 04, 1771. The column is 7 meters high.
The inscription on the pedestal tells about splendid victories of the Russian army and fleet under the command of Count F.G. Orlov.