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Group of graves (3): mass graves of Soviet soldiers, mass graves of victims of Nazism and the grave of K.R. Belyavtsev. - a partisan and a monument to country soldiers
Full name of the monument :

Group of graves (3): mass graves of Soviet soldiers, mass graves of victims of Nazism and the grave of K.R. Belyavtsev. - a partisan and a monument to country soldiers

Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
the center of the village of Verkhnya Pozhnya, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1958
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 - 2.7 m, pedestal - 2.34 m, stele - 1.37 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 :
https://smr.gov.ua/uk/
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
In the first mass grave, 13 soldiers who died on August 8, 1943 during the liberation of the village from German-Nazi invaders are buried. The village was finally liberated on August 8, 1943. In the second mass grave, partisans of the Velikopysariv partisan detachment, M. Belyavtsev and F. Marinin, are buried. They died in August 1943. In the third grave is buried a partisan of the same unit, K. Belyavtsev, who was shot by the Nazis on March 11, 1943 for hiding partisans in the village during the occupation. In 1958, a reinforced concrete sculpture of a warrior was installed near the grave of the liberating soldiers. There is an inscription on the front side of the brick pedestal. A plate with an inscription and the names of the buried soldiers is attached to the grave. On the graves of the partisans, there are stelae with the names of the dead. In 1974, 6 boards with the names of 109 compatriot soldiers who died on the fronts of World War II and 2 boards with a bas-relief image of the Order of the Patriotic War and inscriptions were installed on both sides of the graves on concrete foundations.