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Sevastopol Park
The Sevastopol Park (Ukrainian: Севастопольський парк, romanized: Sevastopolskyi park) is a memorial park and mass grave in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Siege of Sevastopol, the park was established in 1955.
On the park's main lane there is monument honoring the soldiers of the siege. It was built by architect Petrov and given to the city, constructed from materials collected from Sevastopol itself. This monument was partly destructed on the order of the Dnipro city council on 7 June 2024 to comply with derussification laws. By June 2025 the monument was in a dreadful state. A fence was placed at the front of the monument to keep out animals that had begun to remove bones from the mass grave.
During the Siege of Sevastopol Fromm 1854 to 1855, the whole of what is now Dnipro was a strategically significant location on the military operations map during the Crimean War. The location functioned as the southern frontier area leading to Crimea. This location also housed army units, command centers, and military hospitals. This was the closest safe area for all the injured and is significant to remember that Katerynoslav (as the city of Dnipro was called at the time) received the captured French, British, and Turks.
Potemkin Palace and Mechnikov Hospital served as military hospitals during the period. The fallen soldiers were laid to rest at a hospital cemetery situated on the grounds of the present-day Sevastopol Park. In 2008[citation needed] historians from Dnipro (the city was then named Dnipropetrovsk) and the surrounding area claim that over 40,000 Russo-Turkish War soldiers are interred here. On different sides of the same hill, they were buried. Later on, the nearby Sevastopol Park and the commemorative monument were established there.
A tiny chapel was constructed at the cemetery in 1863. However, Emperor Alexander II visited Ekaterinoslav (Dnipro's name at the time) in October of that same year, and on his own initiative, the chapel was restored and dedicated in honor of the Lazarus of Bethany. The church was shuttered and largely demolished during the 1930s. Ivan Manzhura, a Ukrainian poet and democrat, was buried in 1893 on land that would eventually become Sevastopol Park. When the church was finished in 1894, a two-story bell tower was built. The USSR's anti-religious campaign demolished the church, but some of its ruins survived and provided the foundation for the mound that would eventually be built.
The cemetery was devastated during the World War II and rebuilt in 1956. A mound with a monument atop it crumbled during the Siege of Sevastopol, by Nazi German forces. Originally intended to be cleared out and replaced with a vegetable greenhouse, the cemetery was turned into a memorial garden in 1953. Monuments and memorials were erected on the main lane, and alongside them—on the burials of thousands of city dwellers—were constructed a children's playground, a dance floor, a movie theater, and even a bar.
Sevastopol Park received the designation of a monument in 1977. Nevertheless, the memorial became abandoned throughout the years of Ukraine's independence. The park ran out of money in the 1990s, and everything came to a halt and abandoned. The park was attempting to come back to life in the mid-1990s, so they began construction and the bar reopened. However, the workmen discovered the coffins and bones. People in the neighboring areas started to protest against the development, the construction was again halted. The bones of an unidentified man were discovered in 1997 while the park was being rebuilt. Although there were speculations that he recognized Alexander Pol, the inspection revealed that the bones were not his.
A square named for the young scouts was inaugurated and refurbished in the following decade. Sevastopol Memorial Park opened to the public on 3 May 2008, the 225th anniversary of Sevastopol and Victory Day. Diplomats from the Russian Federation Consulate General in Ukraine, a delegation from the city consisting of the Sevastopol veterans, the Dnipropetrovsk diocesan clergy, Cossacks, young sailors from the Dnieper Flotilla, and civilians all attended the event.
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Sevastopol Park
The Sevastopol Park (Ukrainian: Севастопольський парк, romanized: Sevastopolskyi park) is a memorial park and mass grave in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Siege of Sevastopol, the park was established in 1955.
On the park's main lane there is monument honoring the soldiers of the siege. It was built by architect Petrov and given to the city, constructed from materials collected from Sevastopol itself. This monument was partly destructed on the order of the Dnipro city council on 7 June 2024 to comply with derussification laws. By June 2025 the monument was in a dreadful state. A fence was placed at the front of the monument to keep out animals that had begun to remove bones from the mass grave.
During the Siege of Sevastopol Fromm 1854 to 1855, the whole of what is now Dnipro was a strategically significant location on the military operations map during the Crimean War. The location functioned as the southern frontier area leading to Crimea. This location also housed army units, command centers, and military hospitals. This was the closest safe area for all the injured and is significant to remember that Katerynoslav (as the city of Dnipro was called at the time) received the captured French, British, and Turks.
Potemkin Palace and Mechnikov Hospital served as military hospitals during the period. The fallen soldiers were laid to rest at a hospital cemetery situated on the grounds of the present-day Sevastopol Park. In 2008[citation needed] historians from Dnipro (the city was then named Dnipropetrovsk) and the surrounding area claim that over 40,000 Russo-Turkish War soldiers are interred here. On different sides of the same hill, they were buried. Later on, the nearby Sevastopol Park and the commemorative monument were established there.
A tiny chapel was constructed at the cemetery in 1863. However, Emperor Alexander II visited Ekaterinoslav (Dnipro's name at the time) in October of that same year, and on his own initiative, the chapel was restored and dedicated in honor of the Lazarus of Bethany. The church was shuttered and largely demolished during the 1930s. Ivan Manzhura, a Ukrainian poet and democrat, was buried in 1893 on land that would eventually become Sevastopol Park. When the church was finished in 1894, a two-story bell tower was built. The USSR's anti-religious campaign demolished the church, but some of its ruins survived and provided the foundation for the mound that would eventually be built.
The cemetery was devastated during the World War II and rebuilt in 1956. A mound with a monument atop it crumbled during the Siege of Sevastopol, by Nazi German forces. Originally intended to be cleared out and replaced with a vegetable greenhouse, the cemetery was turned into a memorial garden in 1953. Monuments and memorials were erected on the main lane, and alongside them—on the burials of thousands of city dwellers—were constructed a children's playground, a dance floor, a movie theater, and even a bar.
Sevastopol Park received the designation of a monument in 1977. Nevertheless, the memorial became abandoned throughout the years of Ukraine's independence. The park ran out of money in the 1990s, and everything came to a halt and abandoned. The park was attempting to come back to life in the mid-1990s, so they began construction and the bar reopened. However, the workmen discovered the coffins and bones. People in the neighboring areas started to protest against the development, the construction was again halted. The bones of an unidentified man were discovered in 1997 while the park was being rebuilt. Although there were speculations that he recognized Alexander Pol, the inspection revealed that the bones were not his.
A square named for the young scouts was inaugurated and refurbished in the following decade. Sevastopol Memorial Park opened to the public on 3 May 2008, the 225th anniversary of Sevastopol and Victory Day. Diplomats from the Russian Federation Consulate General in Ukraine, a delegation from the city consisting of the Sevastopol veterans, the Dnipropetrovsk diocesan clergy, Cossacks, young sailors from the Dnieper Flotilla, and civilians all attended the event.