Sumy region

center of Stetskivka village, Sumy district

Historical monument of local significance

1961

Soviet period (1922-1991)

real person(s)

mixed group

persons of war

sculpture - 2.55 m, pedestal - 1.7 m, pylon - 15.0 m, and stele - 2.5 x 10.5 x 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

I. Kovbasenko and S. Zuyenko are buried - partisans of the partisan unit under the command of I. Bochkin, which operated in Sumy Oblast in the period from October 1918 to 1919; A. Kovbasa - head of the first collective farm, shot in 1929 during violent collectivization; partisan F. Radko, from the partisan detachment named after Khrushchev (commander S. Zvyagin). Soldiers who died during the defensive battles for the village in early October 1941 and soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders on September 2, 1943 and died of wounds are also buried in the mass grave. The known names of 4 partisans and the soldier I. G. Senokosenko. In 1956, the remains of the dead from different places were transferred to a mass grave, on which in 1975 a concrete sculpture of a soldier on a pedestal, a concrete pylon with an image of the Order of the Patriotic War and a plaque with a memorial inscription were installed. By the pylon is a brick-cemented stele, on which 15 slabs of small marble with the names of 463 compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War and a bas-relief image of battle episodes. To the left of the mass grave, at an angle, there are 8 concrete slabs with memorial inscriptions and the names of the dead.