In order to preserve historical memory and commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and over militaristic Japan, as well as to express gratitude to veterans and those who died, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has designated 2025 as the “Year of the Defender of the Fatherland”!
That is why, as part of the Jubilee Festival, we are organizing the world’s largest Patriotic Motor Rally from Vladivostok to Vyborg. It will start on June 25, 2025, in Vladivostok, from Russky Island, and finish—thanks to the initiative of Father Vyacheslav Kharinov, rector of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" in Saint Petersburg, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the village of Lezye, and the Holy Myronievsky Church of the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment—at a location known by locals as "Paskhin Field" near Vyborg, within the territory of the Soviet Urban Settlement Municipality, near the village of Sverdlovo. The finish will be 200 meters west of the commemorative marker "At the Line of Defense," 4 kilometers southeast of the memorial "To the Soldiers of the 43rd Division," at a granite boulder featuring a carved image of a soldier in a helmet clenching his fist.
Coordinates of the site: 60.599800 N, 28.885300 E
The bas-relief is dedicated to the battles of August 24–31, 1941, during which the troops of the 23rd Army were encircled in what became known as the “Vyborg Tragedy” or the “Porlampi Cauldron.”
Approximately 30,000 soldiers took part in the fighting. About 7,000 troops and officers of the 43rd Rifle Division were killed, and up to 9,000 were taken prisoner. Among those captured was Major General V.V. Kirpichnikov, commander of the 43rd Rifle Division—the only Soviet general taken prisoner by the Finns. He returned from captivity in 1944 and was executed in 1950.
The monument is officially included in the “Book of Remembrance of the Vyborg District.” It was created in the 1990s by biker-sculptor Yuri Paskhin in honor of his father, Vasily Paskhin, the deputy political officer of the 43rd Division, who died at that very boulder leading his comrades in a final assault.
The Veterans Council and residents of the Vyborg District have long hoped to legalize the bas-relief and include it in the “List of Military Burial Sites of the Vyborg District, Leningrad Region.”
If this happens, the site will receive federal funding and protection for its maintenance. The local community proposes to unite three nearby military memorials into a single “Memorial of Remembrance” and name it the “80th Anniversary Victory Memorial.” The proposal to commemorate the Paskhin Field monument, supported by the Governor of the Leningrad Region, has been embraced by the entire biker community of the country.
At the finish of the Motor Rally on July 17 of this year, thousands of bikers from across the country—from Hero Cities, Cities of Military Glory and Labor Valor, and from small towns of the home front where Victory was forged—will bring soil from their homelands to honor the fallen and lay the foundation for the Patriotic Memorial “MotoPark of the World Peace.”
The initiative to create the "MotoPark of the World Peace" Memorial will be carried out under the leadership of Archpriest Vyacheslav Kharinov (OST MC Motorcycle Club).
