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Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Full name of the monument :
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
center of the village of Kosivshchyna, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1969
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
mixed group
Social status :
persons of war
Components of the monument :
sculpture - 2.5 m, pedestal - 2.65 m, base - 2.45x35.2 m, slabs - 0.7 x 0.7 m, slab - 1.50 x 0.50 x 0.35 m
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
complex
Artistic approach :
synthesis
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
memorial inscription
Language(s) of the text :
Ukrainian
Narrative commemorates :
Honoring the culture of war victims, including memorialization
The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :
exists
Institution responsible for maintenance :
Sumy city council
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
Buried soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders on September 2, 1943. The number of those buried in the grave is unknown. The names of 36 soldiers are known. In 1959, the remains of soldiers from the building of the former office were moved to a mass grave, on which a concrete sculpture of a soldier on a brick pedestal was installed in 1959. In 1976, 8 concrete slabs with the names of 206 compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War were fixed to the right of the grave on a concrete inclined base. In 1991, instead of a sculpture of a warrior, a cast-iron plate with the names of the liberating soldiers was installed on a concrete base at an angle.
