A kilometer south of Borodino station is Utitsky Kurgan, named after the name of the village of Utitsa, located west of the burial mound. This mound on the day of the battle of Borodino on August 26, 1812 was a stronghold at the tip of the left flank of the Russian army. A little north of the mound was the Old Smolensk Road, now completely overgrown with forest. This was an important position of the Russian army, which needed to be protected, not giving the enemy the opportunity to go along the road to Mozhaysk and then to Moscow, that is, bypass the Russian army of the south. At the foot of the Utitsky Kurgan, on the side of the road connecting the Borodino station and the Minsk highway, there is a granite commemorative sign erected in 1969 according to the project of architect Nikita Ivanovich Ivanov. On the memorial sign is a detailed diagram of the fighting in the area of the Old Smolensk Road and Utitsky Kurgan on the day of the general battle.
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