Soviet War Cemetery Poltava

This war cemetery contains the graves of 3500 victims of the Second World War.

Next tot the Eternal flam are the graves of the following relative important figures who died during the war:

Stepan F. Kondratenko. 1st Secretary of the Regional Comite Underground Poltava. (killed in 1942.)
G. F. Yatsenko. 1st Secretary of the Regional Comite Underground Poltava.
Lieutenant General Aleksei Z. Ivanovich. Commanded the 58th, 39th and 4th Guards army and fell in 1943.
P. Lidov, S. Strunnykov and O.O. Kuznetsov. Killed war correspondents.
Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Mykola Kucherenko. He fell at Breslau (Wroclaw) in 1945.

There are also 18 mass graves containing the remains of 394 Soviet soldiers who fell between 1941 and 1943.

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz
• Photos: Wikimedia Commons