Shipka is the monument to the freedom of Bulgaria. It is a majestic monumental sculpture erected on Mount St. Nicholas in the Balkan Mountains, on the occasion of the country's liberation from Ottoman rule. It was built in order to perpetuate the feat of those who fell for freedom during the epic battles on Shipka Peak, which were the critical point of the Russo-Turkish war of liberation and decided its outcome..🇧🇬
The Shipka epic is a series of extremely fierce battles that took place in the summer of 1877 between the Central Turkish Army of Suleiman Pasha and the Russian troops, on whose side several thousand Bulgarian volunteers fought. The battles are fought in the Shipka Pass and in the Shipka Mountain, where the defending Russian-Bulgarian detachments occupy positions on the steep peaks of St. Nicholas, Shipka and Eagle's Nest.🇧🇬
The difficult terrain is a great difficulty for the attackers, but the numerical superiority of the Ottoman hordes is overwhelming, which is why both sides suffer extremely heavy losses in these battles. at the places where the cartridges and shells of the Russian-Bulgarian detachments ended, fierce hand-to-hand fighting ensued, in which the defenders poured waterfalls of stones, carts, cannons and chests on the climbing enemies.🇧🇬
Finally, when all the objects are finished, they begin to throw down the corpses of their slain comrades. This is one of the emblematic circumstances with which this battle is known - even the bodies of the slain, although already dead, continue to bring down enemies to the abyss🇧🇬🇧🇬
Despite the extremely bloody price that the defenders had to pay, they held back the enemy's offensive to the last and thus thwarted Suleiman Pasha's plan to cross into northern Bulgaria, to tear the two Russian forces apart by joining them and joining forces with Mehmed Pasha. and Osman Pashato defeat the Russians.and finally the protected Shipka played the role of an open door, through which the Russian troops entered Thrace and headed for Constantinople, which forced the Ottoman Empire to capitulate🇧🇬🇧🇬
The construction of the monument was carried out between 1926 and 1930, and its grand opening was held personally by Tsar Boris III on August 26, 1934. It was laid at 1326 m above sea level, and the height of the sculpture itself is 31.5 ����