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The temple-monument at the Brotherhood Cemetery
Full name of the monument :

The temple-monument at the Brotherhood Cemetery

Region :
Kyiv region
Address of the monument :
Kyiv, 2 Timiryazevskaya str.
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1916 - 1917 роки
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Imperial period from XVIIІ centuries to 1918
artist-architect Petro Fetisov
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
mixed group
Social status :
persons of war
Material :
stone
Type of art composition :
architectural object(s)
Artistic approach :
figurative art
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 :
Kyiv City Council
Institution’s website :
https://kmr.gov.ua/
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
The temple-monument was built to commemorate the feat of the fallen officers and soldiers who participated in the First World War. The church-monument at the Bratske cemetery survived the huge explosion of ammunition at Zvirynets in 1918. It was not demolished even during the total destruction of churches: the Soviet authorities wanted to set up a crematorium in the church before World War II, but the war prevented them from doing so. In the 1950s, the city executive committee transferred the church building and the adjacent 2.5 hectares (the territory of the Bratske military cemetery) to the Institute of Metal Ceramics and Special Alloys of the Ukrainian SSR. Several special laboratories were opened there, along with some extensions. Later, the church building became the base of the Institute of Strength of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Some of the cemetery terraces can still be seen today.