On the Day of Memory and Sorrow, June 22, 2023, a memorial to the Moscow metro builders who erected defensive structures in 1941 was opened on Borodino Field after restoration. The memorial monument was repaired by the Moscow Metrostroy.
The honorary right to open the restored memorial sign was given to the General Director of Moscow Metrostroy Sergei Zhukov and the Director of the State Borodino Military Historical Museum-Reserve Igor Korneev.
– Borodino Field is a historical place in Russia and Mosmetrostroy. In July-August 1941, here on the 6-kilometer line of the Mozhaisk defense line, under constant bombing and shelling, metro workers erected reinforced concrete pillboxes, said Sergei Zhukov. – One and a half thousand metro builders, mostly women, equipped pillboxes and command posts, laid trenches and anti-tank ditches, and prepared artillery positions. The work was supervised by Tatyana Fedorova, the first metro builder, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, later deputy head of Mosmetrostroy in 1961-1986, Honored Builder of Russia, Hero of Socialist Labor. According to her recollections, about 20 Metrostroy workers died under the bombing. In memory of the Moscow metro builders who participated in the construction of the Mozhaisk Defense Line facilities, in 1971, on the initiative and under the leadership of the head of Mosmetrostroy, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasily Polezhaev and Tatyana Fedorova, a memorial monument was erected on Borodino Field.
Subsequently, the 32nd Guards Siberian Rifle Division under the command of Colonel Hero of Russia Viktor Polosukhin stood to the death on the Mozhaisk line of defense. The division held the defense from October 12 to October 18, 1942, not allowing tank armies to reach Moscow.
As a sign of general grief for the dead, the meeting participants laid wreaths and flowers at the mass grave of Soviet soldiers of the 32nd Guards Siberian Rifle Division under the command of Viktor Polosukhin and at the memorial sign to Moscow metro builders.
The event was attended by a delegation from the leadership and the Council of Veterans of Mosmetrostroy, museum staff and guests of the Borodino Field, students of the Malo-Vyazemskaya secondary school, representatives of the military-patriotic training camp “Borodino-2023”.