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The mass grave of Soviet soldiers and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Full name of the monument :
The mass grave of Soviet soldiers and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
the center of the village of Sakunikha, Romensky district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1959
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
sculptor V. Pyshnyi, architect V. Buchek
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
mixed group
Social status :
persons of war
Components of the monument :
sculptural group - 4.4 m, pedestal - 1.5 m, stele - 2.48 x 11.91 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 :
Romny city council
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
180 Soviet soldiers who died in September 1941 during the defensive battles for the village, who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi invaders on September 9-10, 1943 and died of wounds between September 11 and October 16, 1943 in the hospitals located here, are buried here. The village was liberated on September 10, 1943. The names of 124 soldiers are known. In 1958, the remains of the dead from different places were transferred to a mass grave, on which a concrete sculpture of a warrior was installed in 1959. In 1971, the warrior sculpture was replaced by a reinforced concrete sculptural group of a warrior and a female partisan on a reinforced concrete pedestal. On six white marble slabs there is a memorial inscription and the names of the fallen soldiers. Next to the grave is a reinforced concrete stele with a memorial inscription and the names of 199 compatriot soldiers who died during the Second World War.
