Mamayev Kurgan a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. After the war,
the Soviet authorities commissioned the enormous Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex. Vasily Chuikov , who led Soviet forces at Stalingrad, lies buried at Mamayev Kurgan, the first Marshal of the Soviet Union to be buried outside Moscow. Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there in 2006.