Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
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Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War
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Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War

ID: WOJ-000191-W/90375 (BY-0472)

Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War

The military cemetery on Belush Street was a well-known and prestigious necropolis before the Second World War. Today, it consists of 3 parts - Russian, Polish and a contemporary (extensive and monumental) Belarusian memorial. The Russian part is located deep inside the necropolis, the Polish part - between the Belarusian memorial and the Russian part. The cemetery is separated from Belusha Street by a low fence; a pavement of concrete slabs runs parallel to it, dividing the necropolis into two parts of unequal width. The fence covers the cemetery from three sides - from the side of the Belarusian memorial the area is unfenced. The beginning of the Polish cemetery is marked by a vertical inscription plate with a crowned eagle and an inscription (Polish and Belarusian): "Cemetery of Polish Army soldiers 1918-1939". The Polish cemetery was devastated during the communist period, even more so than the Cemetery of Eaglets in Lviv. High grass grew on the site of the presumed gravestones, and the fence was missing. What survived was the neglected tomb of General Antoni Jastrzębski (a participant in the 1920 battles) and fragments of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In the 1990s the graves of Polish soldiers killed in 1920 and 1939 were cleaned up. In the Polish part of the cemetery there are 280 soldiers' graves from the 1920 battles, all of which are currently unnamed. These graves are arranged in 7 fields, separated by concrete curbs. Outside the separated grave fields there are two graves from the 1920 battles: - the grave of Kazimierz Konopacki - a cavalier of the Order of Virtuti Militari: a gravestone in the form of a horizontal stone slab with an inscribed epitaph plaque; a vertical high black cross is embedded in the slab, and the cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari is placed at the intersection of its arms. The inscription reads: "Ś.P. / Lieutenant of 21 pp. / Kazimierz / Konopacki / cavalier of the orders / Virtuti Militari cl. V / and the Cross of Valour / born on April 4, 1894 / died on July 22, 1920. / Sleep in a dark grave / In token of gratitude / Commander General Berbecki". - the grave of the unknown soldier, built in the 20-year inter-war period by the Female Gymnasium in Grodno, bears the inscription: 'To the Unknown Soldier Samopomoc Gimn.[azjum] Żeńsk.[iego] / Bratnia Pomoc Semin.[arium] Żeńsk.[iego]'. In 1990-1994 a memorial to the victims of the Katyn Massacre was placed in the cemetery - on a black granite base a cross of varied texture was placed on its left side, and on its right side a diagonally standing inscription plaque with a list of names of persons from Grodno, murdered as part of the Katyn Massacre. In front of it are two plaques (with inscriptions in Polish and Belarusian) with the inscription: "To the citizens of Grodno to the Polish Army officers executed in Stalinist camps". Directly in front of the cross, a container with earth from the Katyn cemeteries was built in, which was marked by a plaque with the inscription: "Earth from Katyn graves". In 1994, the remains of more than 100 defenders of Grodno who had fallen in September 1939, exhumed from other places, were buried in the cemetery. Initially, this burial was marked by 4 wooden crosses, one of which was Orthodox. Today the commemoration consists of 3 elements with crosses; the two outermost graves are framed by concrete, planted in the middle and have low concrete crosses without any inscription, the middle element is a metal cross on a stone foundation, on which a metal inscription plaque with the inscription: "Here rest the unknown soldiers of the Polish Army defenders of Grodno in September 1939. Honour their memory". Apart from that, few military graves (or their fragments) from the interwar period have been preserved in the cemetery: Stanisław Gałczyński - a member of the Polish Military Organisation, Wilhelm Zagórski - a Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari, Marian Zarzycki, Wincenty Kołban, Romuald Kozłowski, Stanisław Kamiński and General Antoni Ślepowron-Jastrzębski. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage had planned to carry out a comprehensive renovation of this cemetery in 2022, but this task was hindered by the outbreak of war in Ukraine, which is supported by the Belarusian authorities.

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20.09.2022
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Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street Photo montrant Cemetery on Biełusz Street of Polish Army soldiers killed in the Polish-Bolshevik War Galerie de l\'objet +9
Military cemetery on Biełusz Street, photo MKiDN, 2017

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