Monument Savchenko
Monument to Yuri Savchenko Dnepropetrovsk is located in a small square of the same name, at the intersection of Pushkin and Yuriy Savchenko. Is one of the finest examples of the monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, the number of which to Dnepropetrovsk large.
The composition of the monument Savchenko
The monument consists of three granite slabs that are bonded together. Of these, three are carved figures of people. In the foreground a young man, his face stern, manly look. Behind him, as under his protection - an elderly man and a young woman. Due to this composition the sculptor presented Yury Savchenko as he was in life: a reliable defender and a support for their country, for the inhabitants of his country and his native Dnepropetrovsk.
The composition is placed on a small pedestal to the left of the sculpture is a memorial plaque, made of blue granite. The text of the inscription chosen so succinctly, that in a few words, the author managed to tell the biography of the hero of the war: "Just had a choice every I or Motherland! Yuri Savchenko, Secretary of Party Committee of the underground. "
The monument was unveiled in 1969. Yu made the sculptor and architect L. Pavlov Suponin.
Who is Savchenko
George (Yuri) Savchenko - the secretary of the city committee of the underground Communist Party in Dnepropetrovsk in the Great Patriotic War.
Before the start of the Great Patriotic War Georgy Savchenko worked as an electrician at the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant. Petrovsky. In 1939 he joined the ranks of the Red Army, graduated from the Military-Political Academy.
Spring of 1942, George Savchenko appointed secretary of Party Committee of the underground in Dnipropetrovsk. In October 1942, the German occupying forces took him prisoner, and at the end of January 1943 was shot along with the secretary of the regional committee of the underground Communist Party Nikolai Stashkova. After the war hero awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War I degree.
How to get to the monument Savchenko Dnepropetrovsk
Monument to Yuri Savchenko is on the same street in the central part of Dnepropetrovsk. Working between the streets and the Kirov. Here walking bus number 87A, 87B.
