Sumy region

Shlyah Str., town of Nyzy, Sumy district

Historical monument of local significance

1958

Soviet period (1922-1991)

real person(s)

mixed group

persons of war

sculptural group - 2.8 m, pedestal - 1.7 m, stele - 3.0 x 10.3 m, slab - 1.28 x 0.86 m, bust - 0.6 m

mixed materials

complex

synthesis

Main text, additional text (if available) :

Yes

memorial inscription

Ukrainian

Honoring the culture of war victims, including memorialization

exists

Sumy city council

208 soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders on February 23 and August 18, 1943 and died of wounds between August 19 and December 1943 are buried in 2 graves. Known surnames of 97 soldiers. In 1958, the remains of soldiers from different places were transferred to a mass grave. In the same year, a concrete sculpture of a warrior on a pedestal was installed on the grave. In 1971, the remains of the soldiers from the mass grave on the territory of the sugar factory were moved to the center of the village to the second mass grave, and in the same year, a concrete sculptural group of a warrior and a woman on a pedestal was installed on the grave. Between the graves, 4 cast-iron boards with 48 names of liberating soldiers are placed on a concrete base. In 1972, a concrete stele with the addition of a small piece of granite was installed behind the graves, on which 40 cast-iron boards with 300 surnames of compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War were fixed. Near the ceiling on the left, a cast-iron plate with 41 names of liberating soldiers is placed at an angle on a concrete base. In 1985, to the mass grave from the street. The monument to Sayenko Ilya Petrovych (7.08.1902 - 29.03.1929) - the first head of the Nyiziv Committee of Poor Peasants, killed by kulaks, was moved to Vystoropska Street. The reinforced concrete bust is installed on a brick cemented pedestal, on which there is a memorial inscription.