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The mass grave of the participants of the Civil War, Shpak Y.I. - a participant of collectivization, Soviet soldiers and partisans and a monument to the soldiers of the countryside
Full name of the monument :
The mass grave of the participants of the Civil War, Shpak Y.I. - a participant of collectivization, Soviet soldiers and partisans and a monument to the soldiers of the countryside
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
Okhtyrka district, Dovzhyk village, Administrativna str.
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1956 р., 1967 р., 1917–1921, 1928–1933, 1939–1945
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
Material :
stone
Type of art composition :
one-figure composition
Artistic approach :
figurative art
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
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 :
Chupakhivska settlement community
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
The historical monument is located in the center of the village, in the
in the park near the House of Culture.
Buried: partisans M.Hlyba and A.Pavlenko, who died in 1919 during the civil war; the first head of Dovzhytsia village Y.Shpak, killed in 1930 during the
war; the first head of the Dovzhytsia village council, Y. Shpak, killed in 1930 during
6 partisans of the detachment under the command of Y. Mishchenko, who died on 10 October 1942 in
died on February 10, 1942 in a battle with the Nazi invaders. The detachment was formed in the village.
Rozsokhuvate, in 1942 it was based in the Trostianets forests. The names of the fallen partisans
are known: A. Galkin, M. Hutsov, H. Datsyuk, A. Zvirko, Y. Mishchenko, M. Mishchenko.
In the same grave are buried 136 soldiers from the units of the 206th and 155th rifle divisions who
died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders in August 1943. The village
was liberated on August 11, 1943. The names of all the fallen soldiers are known.
In 1956, the remains of the dead were transferred from different places to a mass grave, where a concrete sculpture of a soldier was installed in the same year. On the front side of the brick
pedestal is a white marble plaque with a memorial inscription. On
On both sides of the pedestal, on concrete bases at a slight angle, there are 4
marble slabs with the names of the fallen soldiers-liberators are installed on concrete bases at a slight angle.
In 1967, at a distance of 1.0 m from the base of the pedestal, two brick cemented steles were installed on the left and right, on which 10 boards of marble were fixed
with inscriptions and the names of 207 fallen soldiers from the countryside. To the left and right of the
and to the right of the steles are two more brick cemented steles with inscriptions