Drobytsky Yar

Drobytsky Yar is a ravine in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In December 1941, Nazi troops invading the Soviet Union began the following year. At the stop of this period, a few 16,000 humans in particular Jews had been killed. Children were thrown in pits alive, to keep bullets, within the expectation that they could fast freeze to dying. In the start of the 1990s, a competition changed into held for the fine design of the memorial to immortalize the heaps of citizens who perished on the hands of the Nazis. 29 designs had been submitted.

The winner changed into the architect A. Leibfreid. The creation of the complicated lasted numerous years. At a meeting in overdue August 2001, the Kharkiv Oblast management decided to resume the construction of the memorial. The oblast government supervised the construction process The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine allotted 600,000 hryvnas for the development. Contributions have also been made with the aid of city and oblast administrations, as well as by way of sponsors.