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On the north side of the Cemetery is situated Field of Mars (No. 1 on the plan), a war memorial built in 1974. This war memorial originally the graves of 3,800 Soviet soldiers who died in the battles against the Nazi occupiers during World War II) (named Great Patriotic War in Soviet ideology [4]) and against units of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) (acting up to the mid-1950s).
The Book of Remembrance documents the losses of all units of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, as well as irregular volunteer formations. [9]The site did not initially publish information about servicemen who committed suicide; [4] however, as of 2017, this approach has been revised, indicating the cause of death in such cases as a "tragic situation."
The area was originally part of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors Home, which was established in 1877; the cemetery was officially dedicated in on December 25, 1879. In 1930, it became part of the National Cemetery system.
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From the early 1920s until the late 1940s throughout the Stalinist purges, the Soviet government hauled the bodies of tortured and killed political prisoners to the pine forests outside the village of Bykivnia and buried them in a grave that spanned 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq ft).
New York is among the four states that don’t protect all their dead from unintentional excavation—specifically those buried on private lands. There have been several examples of this over the ...
An American fighting for Ukraine who served in the U.S. Army with combat tours in the Middle East described the constant Russian bombardment of the city of Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s Donbas ...
James O'Brien (1841–1907) – New York City alderman (1864, 1866), Sheriff of New York County (1867), New York State Senator (1872–1873), and U.S. Representative from New York (1879–1881) Lawrence V. Cullen, J.D., USMC (1948–2012), Justice New York State Court of Claims (appointed by Gov. George Pataki), elected New York State Supreme ...