Budenny Monument
Proletarian street, Donetsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine
Description:
The monument to Budennoy was erected in honor of S.M. Budennoy, a participant of the Civil War, in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk. It is known that in 1919 a group of the First Cavalry Army took part in the liberation of Donetsk (formerly Yuzovka) from Denikin.
The monument was erected in 1951 and the original pedestal was slightly higher than it is today. In 2000, the sculpture was restored and moved fifty meters closer to the entrance to the city hospital No. 5.
The monument to Budennoy is unique, as it depicts a cavalryman in a hurry, while other sculptural compositions depict Semyon Mikhailovich on horseback.