{{Short description|Ridge near Sevastopol, Crimea}} {{Coord|44.552879||N|33.583403||E|type:mountain|name=Sapun-gora|display=title}} {{Infobox mountain | image = Сапун-гора. Монумент. (Mount Sapun or Sapun Ridge).jpg | image_caption = Obelisk of Glory to Soviet Warriors on Mount Sapun | name = Mount Sapun | module = {{Infobox historic site |embed = yes |designation1 = UKRAINE NATIONAL |designation1_offname = {{Lang|uk|Меморіальний комплекс "Сапун-гора"}} (''Mount Sapun memorial complex'') |designation1_type = History |designation1_number = 270009-Н }} }} '''Mount Sapun''' or '''Sapun Ridge''' ({{langx|ru|Сапун-Гора}}; {{langx|uk|Сапун-гора}}; {{langx|crh|Sapun dağı, Сапун дагъы}}) is a 240 m high ridge to the southeast of Sevastopol, situated on the Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russia.{{cn|date=November 2025}}
==History== It became the site of heavy fighting during the siege of Sevastopol (1941-1942), and also during its liberation in 1944.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fahner |first1=Sebastian |last2=Feichtinger |first2=Christian |last3=Heijden |first3=Rogier E. M. |title=Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts |date=18 November 2024 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-122959-1 |page=178 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Politics_of_Pasts_and_Futures_in_Post_Im/vM0uEQAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
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.{{cn|date=November 2025}}
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.{{cn|date=November 2025}}
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.{{cn|date=November 2025}} thumb|Building of the diorama ''Storm of Mount Sapun''
==External links== * [http://www.sevastopol.info/monument/eindex.html The Monuments of Sevastopol]
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