| Alley of Angels | |
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| Ukraine | |
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2015-11-18. Аллея ангелов в Донецке 01.jpg Memorial arch and plaque of the Alley of Angels | |
| For child casualties of the War in Donbass | |
| Established | May 5, 2015 |
| Location | Lenin Komsomol Park of Culture and Leisure, Donetsk, Ukraine |
The Alley of Angels in Donetsk, Ukraine is a memorial for children of Donbas killed during the War in Donbas. At the entrance there is an arch made of forged roses interwoven with machine gun ammunition casings, a symbol of war, and doves, a symbol of peace. Under the arch there is a granite slab with the names and ages of the killed children.
A plaque with the inscription "Alley of Angels" was installed on May 5, 2015, and memorial was unveiled on May 5, 2015.[citation needed] The arch and the name plaque were installed in August 2015.[1][better source needed] In 2018 the UNICEF Ukraine reported on Twitter that over 140 children were killed or injured by mines during the war.[2]
On June 1, 2017 a monument to children of Donbas was installed by the Alley. It was created by Russian sculptor Denis Seleznev.[3][unreliable source?] The model for the monument was Kirill Sidoryuk (September 29, 2001 – August 29, 2014),[4][unreliable source?] who was killed while protecting his sister from shelling with his body.[5][unreliable source?]
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- ↑ "Донбасс: Линия смерти" (in ru). September 24, 2015. https://comments.ua/digest/524537-donbass-liniya-smerti.html.
- ↑ UNICEF_UA (1 October 2018). "Three boys were killed and one was wounded by a mine explosion in Donetsk region, #Ukraine. The presence of mines a…". https://twitter.com/UNICEF_UA/status/1046739870721474560.
- ↑ "В Донецке открыли памятник детям Донбасса", REGNUM, June 2, 2020
- ↑ "Кирилл Сидорюк" (in ru). http://101life.net/ru/content/%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB-%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8E%D0%BA.
- ↑ "Ценой собственной жизни I История реального прототипа памятника детям Донбасса" (in ru). https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5a436e125f4967be7547e246/cenoi-sobstvennoi-jizni-i-istoriia-realnogo-prototipa-pamiatnika-detiam-donbassa-5ab23d379d5cb34819a4b3d2.
BBC: Children die in Donetsk shelling (2014)
Coordinates: 48°1′11.456″N 37°48′48.607″E / 48.01984889°N 37.81350194°E
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