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The mass grave of Soviet soldiers, among whom O.M. Sergeev is buried. – Hero of the Soviet Union and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Full name of the monument :
The mass grave of Soviet soldiers, among whom O.M. Sergeev is buried. – Hero of the Soviet Union and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
Kalytivka Str., village Byshkin, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1954
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 - 2.9 m, pedestal - 2.9 m, base - 1.02 x 7.14 m
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
one-figure composition
Artistic approach :
figurative art
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
memorial inscription
Language(s) of the text :
Russian
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 :
30 Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from German-Nazi invaders on February 23, 1943, August 20, 1943 and died of wounds between August 26 and September 12, 1943 in the hospitals stationed here are buried here. The names of all the dead are known. Among the buried - Oleksiy Markelovich Sergeev, Hero of the Soviet Union (January 10, 1944, posthumously). Sergeant O. Sergeev, commander of the machine gun company, during the battle on March 10, 1943 in the area of the village of Byshkin covered the exit of the battalion from the encirclement. He repelled three enemy counterattacks with machine gun fire. Died in this battle. Awarded the Order of Lenin, a medal. In 1954, 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 with a memorial inscription on a brick pedestal and a cast-iron gravestone was installed. In 1979, to the right of the sculpture, on a concrete base, five cast-iron slabs with the names of 267 soldiers born in the village were installed. Byshkin, Ovdyanske, Revky, Shchetyny, which died during the Second World War.
