Savur-Mohyla
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Savur-Mohyla (), often transliterated using the Russian spelling Saur-Mogila (), is a strategic height in the Donets ridge near the city of Snizhne, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Key facts
- Military memorial.name
- Savur-Mohyla Memorial
- Military memorial.image
- 200px
- Military memorial.caption
- Savur-Mohyla Memorial, 2008
- Military memorial.commemorates
- Red Army soldiers fallen during World War II
- Military memorial.nearest_town
- Snizhne
- Military memorial.designer
- Anatoly Ignashchenko
- Military memorial.unveiled
- 1963
- Historic site.embed
- yes
- Historic site.designation1
- UKRAINE NATIONAL
- Historic site.designation1_offname
- (Savur-Mohyla Memorial Complex)
- Historic site.designation1_type
- History
- Historic site.designation1_number
- 050013-Н
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monument
- Country
- Donetsk People's Republic
- Located in
- Horlivka Raion
- Elevation
- 278
- Genre
- public art
- Image
- Саур-Могила.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saur-Mogila
- heritage designation
- State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine
- mountain range
- Donets Ridge
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- 2014 war in Donbas
- Destruction of the memorial
- Reconstruction
- Gallery
- References
Savur-Mohyla (), often transliterated using the Russian spelling Saur-Mogila (), is a strategic height in the Donets ridge near the city of Snizhne, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
The tall hill is better known for a big monument complex that was built in 1963 by Ukrainian architect Anatoly Ignashchenko to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Savur Mohyla during World War II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Savur-Mohyla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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