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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 Katerynivka village, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1964
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 - 2.75 m, pedestal - 2.2 m, stele - 4.5 x 1.0 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 :
51 soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from German-Nazi invaders on September 5-6, 1943 and died of wounds between September 7 and 8, 1943 in the hospitals stationed here are buried; S. Solovei from the underground group of D. Melnyk, shot by German-Nazi invaders in 1941. The village was liberated on September 6, 1943. The names of 43 dead soldiers are known. In 1950, the remains of the dead from different places were transferred to a mass grave, on which a brick cemented obelisk was installed in the same year, replaced in 1964 by a concrete sculpture of a warrior with a memorial inscription on a brick pedestal and a cast-iron tombstone. In 1970, to the left of the sculpture, a cemented brick stele was installed with the names of 233 soldiers, natives of the villages of Katerynivka, Velyki Luky, Verkhne, Grun, Zhovtneve, Oleksiivka, who died during the Second World War.