Memorial to Fallen Soldiers - Rașcov

Unknown1960s-1980s

Description

A granite-clad obelisk on Lenina Street commemorating local soldiers killed in the Second World War, fronted by a wall of black panels listing names by surname. The shaft carries three stacked reliefs: a Soviet star, a dedicatory shield reading "To the soldiers who died, 1941–1945," and a cast portrait of Fyodor Zharchinsky (1913-1945), the village's most decorated wartime figure. The density of names on the panels below gives some sense of the scale of loss suffered by a single rural community.

Details

Category
Spatial and Urban Form
Typology
Memorial Complex
Period
Socialist Modernist
Country
Moldova
Region
Pridnestrovie
City
Rascov
Address
Lenina Street
Coordinates
47.9437, 28.8402
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