Sumy region

центр села Юнаківка, Сумський район

Historical monument of local significance

1969

Soviet period (1922-1991)

real person(s)

mixed group

persons of war

at the burial site of the victims of the civil war, a sculptural group - 2.5 m, base - 1.1 m, pylon - 7.0 m, board - 0.6 x 1.5 m; at the burial place of the liberating soldiers, a sculpture - 2.5 m, a pedestal - 1.0 m, a stele - 1.5 x 20 m; at the burial place of compatriots, a stele - 1.5 x 15 m, a sculptural group - 3.5 m, a pedestal - 1.5 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

In two mass graves are buried: in the first grave 22 residents of the village, executed on January 20, 1921 by soldiers of N. Makhno's army; in the second grave, soldiers who died during defensive battles for the village in mid-October 1941 and soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders on March 7 and in the second half of August 1943 and died of wounds in March - September 1943 in hospitals are buried in the second grave , as well as local residents who died during the liberation of the village. The names of 95 soldiers are known. In 1969, the remains of the dead from different places were reburied in two mass graves, on which a memorial was erected in the same year. The plot where the graves are located is covered with concrete slabs, the graves are not identified. In the center of the site, at the burial site of the victims of the civil war, a sculptural group of concrete blocks has been installed: a girl and a Red Army soldier on a base. Behind it is a concrete pylon with a black marble plaque at the top and a concrete plaque with memorial inscriptions at the bottom. At a distance of 10 m from the center, in the lower left corner of the site, at the place of burial of the liberating soldiers, a concrete sculpture of a warrior with a memorial inscription on the pedestal has been installed. Adjacent to it is a brick-cemented stele, on which 9 concrete slabs with 77 names of soldiers and local residents who died during the liberation of the village. At a distance of 10 m from the center, in the upper right corner of the site, an L-shaped brick-cemented stele has been installed, on which 9 concrete slabs with 329 names of compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War. The stele ends with a sculptural group (an infantryman, a tanker and a girl) made of concrete blocks with a memorial inscription on the pedestal.