In gorodishchensky area of the Volgograd region is a Military memorial cemetery of Rossoshkas. The initiative of opening of a memorial complex was owned Gorodische veterans Council, and funds for the construction of the historic structure was allocated by the people's Union of Germany. Named the memorial on behalf of the two villages, Large and Small Rossoshkas, which was located where the cemetery until 1942.

After the battle of Stalingrad incinerated the Rossoshkas served as the burial place of German soldiers. In 1992, an agreement is signed between Russia and Germany on the care of military cemeteries and in may 1999 offer Military memorial complex in Rossoshka. The care and maintenance of precast cemetery is achieved through voluntary donation of German citizens.

Military memorial complex consists of two fields separated by a road, in the opposite ends of which are German and Soviet cemetery. One field became the burial place of more than one hundred and fifty thousand dead soldiers of both sides. The Central motif of the Soviet cemetery was the sculpture "Mourning", Volgograd made by sculptor Sergey Shcherbakov. A copy of the sculpture is in the Royal Museum in Britain. The figure of a woman represents the tribulation, and the bell without a tongue in the raised hands of the silence. At the entrance to the Soviet part of the cemetery there are two walls with inscribed lines of Vladimir Vysotsky.

In the centre of the German cemetery is an area of memory with a memorial black cross. A huge mass grave has the shape of a cylinder with a height of 3. 5 meters and a diameter of more than 150 meters. Some of the names of 120 thousand graves that have been identified are struggling on granite slabs in the walls of the mass grave. Next to the mass grave are granite cubes with the names of the missing.

At a little distance from the memorial stands a granite obelisk in memory of the peaceful inhabitants of the two villages, killed in fighting. A few meters from the village cemetery (place of Soviet pow camp) a memorable character in the form of a pyramid with a soldier's helmet and barbed wire, with the text "Dead, but not changed the oath".

The cleanliness and tidiness of the Military memorial cemetery of Rossoshkas watches specially created society.