Memorial to the 252nd Red Banner Kharkov–Bratislava Rifle Division - Ungheni

UnknownSocialist Modernist

Description

The memorial is made of vertical slab in polished red granite, topped with the Order of the Patriotic War, a Soviet military decoration featuring the hammer and sickle over a red star. The memorial reads: "252-ой Краснознаменной Харьковско-Братиславской орденов Суворова и Богдана Хмельницкого стрелковой дивизии 4-ой Гв. Армии павшим 2.VIII.1944 г.", translared in English: “To the 252nd Red Banner Kharkov–Bratislava Rifle Division, decorated with the Orders of Suvorov and Bohdan Khmelnytsky, of the 4th Guards Army, [to those] fallen on 2 August 1944.”

Details

Category
Spatial and Urban Form
Typology
Memorial Complex
Period
Socialist Modernist
Country
Moldova
Region
Moldova
City
Ungheni
Address
strada Națională
Coordinates
47.2078, 27.8015
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