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Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Full name of the monument :
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, partisans and a monument to compatriot soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
center of Maly Vystorop village, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1961
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 - 2.8 m, stele - 3.0 x 1.5 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 :
Three partisans of the Lebedyn partisan unit under the command of K. Karpov, executed by the Nazis on December 10, 1941, were buried; 29 Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from German-Nazi invaders on August 18, 1943 by units and died of wounds from August 19 to August 24, 1943 in hospitals located here. The names of 3 partisans and all the fallen soldiers are known. In 1961, 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 concrete tombstone was installed. In 1970, a concrete stele was installed to the left of the grave, on which a concrete slab with 171 names of soldiers, natives of the village. Maly Vystropop and Zaliznychne, who died during the Second World War.
