Sumy region

the center of Ryabushki village, Sumy district

Historical monument of local significance

1956

Soviet period (1922-1991)

sculptor F. Korovai, architect M. Makhonko

real person(s)

mixed group

persons of war

sculpture - 3.3 m

mixed materials

complex

synthesis

Main text, additional text (if available) :

Yes

memorial inscription

Ukrainian

Honoring the culture of war victims, including memorialization

exists

Sumy city council

220 soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from German-Nazi invaders on August 18, 1943 and died of wounds in the period from August 19 to November 2, 1943 in the hospital stationed here, and two partisans of the Lebedyn partisan unit under the command of K. Karpov, executed by the Nazis on May 2, 1942. The names of 191 dead soldiers are known. In 1947, the remains of the dead from different places were transferred to a mass grave near the club, and in 1953 they were reburied at the village council. In 1956, a concrete sculpture of a warrior was installed on the grave. On the front side of the brick pedestal there is a bas-relief image of the Order of the Great Patriotic War and an inscription. In 1973, on both sides of the sculpture of a warrior, two stone stelae were installed, on which 14 cast-iron slabs with a memorial inscription and the names of 307 soldiers, natives of the villages of Ryabushki, Kostiv, Kyrylivka, Severny, Vilshanka, who died during the Second World War. In front of him are two more cemented brick steles with a bas-relief image of a partisan, a sailor, an infantryman, a tanker, a pilot, two partisans - a young man and a girl.