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Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, Chayka I.P. - a partisan and a monument to country soldiers
Full name of the monument :
Mass grave of Soviet soldiers, Chayka I.P. - a partisan and a monument to country soldiers
Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
Star path Str., Bohdanivka village, Shostkinsky district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1985
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
sculptor V.Chepelyk, architect V.Kostin
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
mixed group
Social status :
persons of war
Components of the monument :
sculptural group - 3.0 m, pedestal - 1.6 m, stele - 1.2 x 3.5 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 :
Shostka City Council
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
26 Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of the village from the Nazi occupiers at the beginning of September 1943 and I. Chaika, a partisan of the 2nd Shostkin partisan unit, who
was part of the unit of partisan units of Ya. Melnyk (commander A. Smyk), who died on February 10, 1943. The names of all buried soldiers are known. The village was liberated on September 9, 1943.
In 1958, the remains of those buried from different places were transferred to a mass grave, on which a concrete sculpture of a warrior was installed in the same year. In 1985, the monument was reconstructed: the sculpture of a warrior was replaced by a sculptural group of a warrior and a woman. On a concrete pedestal is a gray granite board with an inscription. To the right of the pedestal is a concrete stele on which 6 gray granite boards with the names of 190 compatriots who died during the Second World War are fixed.
