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Mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Full name of the monument :
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
Soborna Str., Khotin village, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1950
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 - 1.7 m, slab - 1.4 x 0.9 m, base - 0.9 x 18.8 m, slabs - 1.8 x 1.2 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 :
233 soldiers who died during the defensive battles for the village in early October 1941 and who died during its liberation from the Nazi invaders on September 1, 1943 and died of wounds in the hospitals stationed here are buried here. The names of 32 soldiers and 2 partisans are known. Also buried in the grave is the commander of the Khotyn partisan detachment named after Khrushchev S. Zvyagin and scout of the same detachment F. Priimenko. In 1950, the remains of the dead from different places were transferred to a mass grave, on which in the same year a concrete sculpture of a warrior was installed on a brick pedestal and a cast-iron tombstone with a memorial inscription and the names of the dead was placed. In 1975, 11 cast-iron plates with the names of 261 compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War and a memorial inscription were installed behind the grave on a concrete base at an angle.
