On the 14th of November Students of PR -201 Group, accompanied by a mentor Irina Timkovich in order to commemorate the victins during the liberation of Kyiv in 1943, visited the to Soldiers-motorists Monument. It was erected on the South Borschagivka in Kiev in 1985 on a mass grave of Soviet soldiers. Its is composed of a granite obelisk, next to which a bronze tactical vehicle is located. On this vehicle sits a warrior, a motorist with a bowed head and looks at the obelisk commemorating the fallen comrades.
70 years have passed since the day when the November 6, 1943 troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front concluded a bloody and brutal battle for the Dnieper and the capital of Ukraine. Kyiv was completely freed from the enemy. During the storm, according to various estimates, there had died from two hundred to six hundred thousand people, according to eyewitnesses, the Dnieper River was completely in blood. Dearly paid the Ukrainian people for their participation in 1941-1945 world war, that was the worst in the entire world history. We - the young generation of our country, are deeply convinced that the major feat and a great tragedy of our people will never pass from record of men, descend into oblivion - his battle, his victory over the Nazis! The memory of the war remain with us as a model of courage, fortitude, determination, hard warrior's trade, and as an eternal sorrow for those who lost their lives for the liberation of our beautiful city of Kyiv.