Memorial to victims of Holodomor Sands

At the site of a mass grave victims erected Regional Holodomor Memorial in the sand Burinskiy area. According to the book of civil registration, with 7.5 months in the village killed 1,185 people. Such monuments in the Sumy region, there are two, the other set in the regional center .

What is the Memorial

The decision on the construction of the monument was taken in 2007. Memorial made in the form of complex structures. Among the distinguished white marble slabs circuit peasant houses, which posted a three identical crosses. They symbolize the death of the older generation, middle-aged, youth and children.

Ahead of a bowl set "sheaf of grief." This slab of marble, vychekaneni form sheaves. They plotted age, names of the dead. Also, they contain information about 1167 villagers Sands, who left life during the Great Famine of 1932-1933. Author of the project put forward a proposal to rename regional monument in "The Harvest of Sorrow."

How to get there

Memorial to Holodomor victims is in the village Peski, Sumy region. The village is located on the landscape Hetman National Park. The nearest town - Romney, from which you can get N12 road, turning left at the village Sosonka. Sands located between the settlements and the Separation Ivanovka old.