Monument to the fallen Afghan soldiers

Lenin Komsomol Park is the main place of cultural recreation, both residents and guests of Donetsk. Here is the stadium "Donbass Arena", exhibition centers and a large number of monuments and monuments. One of these sculptural compositions is a monument to the fallen soldiers-Afghans (the second name - soldiers-internationalists).

The monument was erected on May 7, 1996, near the monument “Liberators of Donbass”. The architect E. N. Temkin and the sculptor A. N. Porozhnyuk worked on the composition project. The appearance of the monument speaks for itself. This is a sculpture of a fighter, located on a block of stone, symbolizing the large rocks of Afghanistan. The stone block is surrounded by 36 memorial tablets with the names of the dead soldiers, which is 254 people. Near the monument there is a zone of silence created by the park.

The opening of the monument is associated with a large number of participants of the Afghan war, who were buried in the Donetsk region – more than 302 people. About 300 people became disabled as a result of this bloody act. In 2009-2010, the monument had to be moved to a couple of hundred meters, as the grandiose construction of the Donbass Arena stadium began.