Урочище Шумейково

This place of memory is remote from large roads and large settlements. Driving across the steppe does not say anything about the terrible events that took place here in 1941. But when approaching this large memorial, you immediately realize that something serious was happening ... I recommend visiting and remembering the dead heroes ...

This area has a symbolic meaning

Quiet, peaceful place. Pure, music is playing. The size of the memorial is impressive!

The memorial complex “Shumeykovo Tract”, unique in scale and beauty of the surrounding nature, is located in the Lokhvitsky district of the Poltava region. Few people know this place - the memorial is located far from settlements, in the fields, near the small, now deserted village of Dryukovshchina, about which I spoke. Here on September 20, 1941, the united column of the headquarters of the South-Western Front took the last battle. Here is the place of death of the front commander, Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos. At this point, the Germans destroyed the 5th Army and ended the history of the Southwestern Front. With the approach of Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group, the decision to defend Kiev at any cost turned into carnage and a complete loss of control over the Southwestern Front. 4 armies, caught up in the cauldron, breaking through in the direction of Poltava, were forced to leave heavy weapons in Pyryatyn and break up into columns of up to one and a half thousand people. On September 20, the headquarters of the 5th Army was captured in full force, and the front commander, Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos, took over the leadership of its remnants. This was his last fight. It was the smallest army in his career: about 1000 officers and soldiers, 2 armored vehicles ... Taking a position on the edge of the tiny one - 0.5 sq. km. - tracts south-west of Lokhvitsa, she gave the retreating troops precious 5 hours of respite. This watch contained an attack from 3 sides, hand-to-hand combat and mortar shelling, which mowed down people and then still young trees. Half a square kilometer. Five hours. Three deaths a minute. Twenty deaths per hectare. The survivors - about one in nine - could only remember that there was hell here. Nowadays it is fashionable to say that “you just have to stop shooting”. That "human life is above all". If this were so, then Ukraine as a country would simply not exist for a long time. Where human life is above all, there is no place for feat, there is no place for self-sacrifice. If my life is the main value, then why take risks? It is good that the liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster did not think so, otherwise Ukraine and half of Europe would already be a radioactive desert. It is good that the Soviet soldiers did not think so, otherwise we would have been under German occupation already in the middle of the last century. It is good that the ATO soldiers do not think so, otherwise Ukraine would become a "republic" of the Russian Federation. They all understood that the life of everyone is inextricably linked with his people and the living space that he occupies - the COUNTRY. And this is the main value that must first of all be protected for the sake of future generations ... at the cost of OWN lives. The history of mankind has long proved that those who put selfish interest above public interest did not survive. The “hut on the edge” always burns down first. But now they are trying to prove to us that this is not so ... Humanism, which affirms human life as the highest value, is deeply hostile to Christianity. There is no place in him for God and the higher goals that he claims. There is no place for patriotism in it. Transhumanists have no homeland. This is a flawed and destructive worldview of people fixated on themselves ... We must remember the exploits of our ancestors, not forget for the sake of what they were performed.

An iconic place where every centimeter is saturated with blood and tragic history. It was here that the People who stopped Hitler's "blitz-krieg" died