In 1984 the Memorial Complex to the Fallen of the Great Patriotic War was opened. Located next to Nikitskoe Cemetery, the complex serves as a military cemetery for soldiers who died during the Second World War, many unidentified and buried in mass graves. The war dead are remembered in many memorials at the complex including monumental gates, an obelisk, statues of soldiers and an eternal flame. Also included is a monument to the Kursk Nuclear Submarine which sank in the Barents Sea in August 2000 and bore the name of the city.