On guards Avenue, Kaliningrad, where the military parades, the monument to 1200 guardsmen. The monument is a mass grave of the 11th guards army, the soldiers which were killed during the assault of Koenigsberg. The monument to the guards is the work of architects of Moscow S. S. NanoScan and I. D. Milchakova, six Lithuanian sculptors, which included B. Petrauskas, P. Vaivada and R. Jackevicius and project Manager of Juozas mikėnas as well.

Monument to 1200 guardsmen opened in September 30, 1945, was the first Soviet monument in the not yet renamed königsberg. The decision to commemorate the feat of the Soviet soldiers was taken immediately after the Victory (may 1945) the Military Council of the 11th army, and the order of the reburial of soldiers in a mass grave was signed by Colonel General K. N. Galicia. A year later, near the monument were installed sculptural composition "Victory" (sculptor Juozas mikėnas as well) and "Storm". On the anniversary of the Victory celebration, in 1960, the year before the monument was lit the eternal flame. In 1995, in the immediate vicinity of the monument was built by the Orthodox chapel (Appelscha gates) in memory of those killed in the assault soldiers.

Monument to 1200 guardsmen is dammed part of the Victory Park on the square oval shape. The centerpiece of the monument - 26-meter obelisk in the shape of a five pointed star with seven stone belts. On the sides of the obelisk are reliefs depicting medals, decorations, arms and compositions of fighting scenes. Along the walls of the square are four marble headstone with a list of names of dead soldiers. Also installed the pedestals and two obelisks heroes of the Soviet Union. Wall of rusticated granite blocks adorned with sixteen reliefs and marble slabs with the names of the fallen.