Kulikovo Field
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Kulikovo Field (Russian: Куликово поле, or Kulikovo Pole; lit. "snipe's field") is a field in Tula Oblast in Russia, where the famous Battle of Kulikovo took place on September 8 of 1380.
The field is located between the rivers of Nepryadva, Krasivaya Mecha, and Don some 140 km away from Tula and 23 km away from the Kulikovo Pole railway station. Today, Kulikovo Field is home to a museum complex, which includes a 28-meter column on Red Hill (Красный Холм), built in 1848-1850, and a memorial church in honor of Sergius of Radonezh (built in 1913-1918 to a design by Aleksey Shchusev), which is now the Kulikovo Field Museum.
There is a stone church in the nearby settlement of Monastyrshchino (Монастырщино), where, according to a legend, the fallen Russian soldiers were interred after the battle. No burials have been found so far, which poses a puzzle for scholars who estimate that the battle claimed up to 200,000 lives on both sides.[1]
