Monument Stashkova

Nikolai Stashkov - Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the organizers of the Komsomol underground in Dnipropetrovsk region. The monument is located on the central promenade of Dnepropetrovsk, at the intersection of Lenin Embankment and Moscow.

The composition and the history of the monument to Nicholas Stashkova

Monument to the famous revolutionary in Dnepropetrovsk was opened May 9, 1975, in honor of the 30th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Sculptor Volkov made with the participation of the architect O. Petrova.

The composition of the monument consists of a bust of the famous revolutionary, which is located on a high pedestal. At the bottom of the pedestal is decorated with plaques on which are listed the data, who dedicated the monument and sculpture of the red Soviet star. For many years on the central promenade of the famous revolutionary guards the rest of the townspeople, his manly look, he looks for the enemy, his eyebrows nasupleny, a grimace on his face froze confidence in the victory over the fascist invaders.

Who is Stashkov

The fate of Nicholas Stashkova as the fate of any revolutionary difficult to call happy, but Nicholas did not spare the life of the first years. Future hero was born in Odessa in the family of a worker.

In 1921 Stashkov enters the ranks of the students of the school of red elders, after the end of the school held in Odessa infantry school. In 1925, it demobilized and sent to work as a mechanic at a machine-building factory in Lugansk. Later he moved to Dnepropetrovsk.

When the Great Patriotic War, and there is evidence of the approach to the city of the Nazi invaders in the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee created an underground party, whose head is appointed by Stashkov. Underground regional party distributed leaflets among the population a lot. Through its activities the main operating companies of Dnepropetrovsk, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Krivoy Rog and the Manganese sabotaged the orders of the Nazis.

In 1942, the Germans issued a traitor Stashkova. In January 1943, he was shot. In May 1945, Nicholas Stashkov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin, and he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

How to get to the monument Stashkova in Dnepropetrovsk

You can get to the monument on public transport, which moves along the embankment of Lenin, stop - "Street Moscow". Near the monument to famous revolutionary city attractions such as Church of St John the Baptist, a monument Margelov and fountain "Holiday".