Kaluga region, Yukhnovsky district, village Klimov Zavod

Identified cultural heritage site “Mass Grave”

Description:
According to data for 1859, 1887 and 1904, there was a post station in Klimovo.
In 1860, the village already housed the Yusupov estate, which had extensive holdings in the Smolensk province. It should be noted that they replaced corvee labor for their peasants with a light quitrent, which was rare among the province’s nobles. The main house of the estate was destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, when the village territory was under the control of German forces (from October 1941 to March 1943). There is now a school on the site where the house was located. The only thing left from the estate is the planting of trees (oaks, lindens, elms, poplars) in the form of alleys.
In the center of the village, near the park, there is a mass grave of Red Army soldiers. Soldiers who died in battles for the villages of Andreenki, Gornevo, Zhary, Klimov Zavod, Kosaya Gora, Krasnaya Gorka, Krasny Oktyabr, Luzhki, Lukanovka, Nizhnyaya Tarasovka, Novomikhaylovka, Rusinovo, Stenki, Tibeki, and also at the mouth of the Sobzha River are buried here.
The burial of the fallen soldiers was carried out by local residents in February – March 1942. The soldiers of the Soviet Army who died in battles in 1942 for the liberation of the settlements of Klimov-zavod, Krasny Oktyabr, Luzhki, Krasnaya Gorka, Zhory, Gorievo, Novomikhaylovka were buried.
In 1985, the remains of Soviet soldiers were reburied from the mass grave located in the village of Krasnaya Gorka.
In 1955, at a rally dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Victory, WWII veterans installed stones with the carved inscription: “A monument will be laid here.” And in 1956, a monument was erected on the site of the Mass Grave.
In 1985, soldiers from the mass grave in the village of Krasnaya Gorka were reburied in the Mass Grave, the monument was reconstructed. A sculpture of a soldier was installed on the pedestal and 28 memorial slabs with the names of the dead carved on them were placed around the perimeter of the monument. In 1991, during the All-Union Watch of Memory, 423 soldiers found near the village of Krasnaya Gorka were buried in this mass grave. According to the burial passport, 2,138 people are buried here, the names of only 448 soldiers are known.

Completed works:
– repair works on improvement of the burial site and repairs. (2021)