The monument to the Kiev regiment hussars Photo: the monument to the Kiev regiment hussars

Monument Kiev hussars regiment – one of the attractions of Sevastopol. The Kiev hussar regiment participated in the defense of Sevastopol in 1854-1855 in Balaklava, Inkerman and Alma battles. Especially noted hussars in the battle of Balaklava, which was held on 13 October 1854 In the place where the battle took place, on a small hill, the 50-year anniversary of the defense and was a monument to Kiev hussars regiment.

In February 1932, a special Commission has decided to demolish the monument "as unimportant" (according to other sources, it was destroyed during the great otechestvennoi war). During the excavations conducted in 2002, archaeologists found part of the Foundation, fragments of cast iron heads and blocks. The monument was restored in September 2004, the 150th anniversary of the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean war. The author of the restoration project was made by Kyiv architect Y. Lissitzky. Funds for reconstruction highlighted Kyiv city Council.

A new monument was erected not at its original location - on a hill, which housed one of the British redoubts, which in 1854-1856 G. was covered by a Balaclava, and a little lower, approximately 75 metres from the highway Sevastopol - Yalta. The restored monument is as close to the original.

An obelisk of grey granite was installed on a small artificial hill, on a two-stage basis. The monument, topped with a cast-iron double-headed eagle that is sitting on four cast-iron nuclei, surrounded by a fence. On the monument there are two plaques with inscriptions, which read: "Valiant ranks who fell in battle on 13 October 1854 Proud (hussars) Kiev regiment" - in Russian and in Ukrainian and Russian languages: "monument to the Kiev regiment hussars restored in 2004 as a gift to the hero-city Sevastopol from Kiev city Council to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean war in honor of the soldiers of the city of Sevastopol".

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