Marchienne-au-Pont Communal Cemetery

History Information (Source: website Russian Embassy)

Here lie Soviet prisoners of war, who died in compulsory labor in the mines of Charleroi during their captivity in 1943.

In the foreground of the plot has been erected a long sloping granite pedestal, on the plinth of which is written in Russian and French: "To the Soviet soldiers who fell at Marchienne-au-Pont during the Second World War. 1941-1944 ”. The pedestal is interspersed at its center with a cubic-shaped monument with an inclined plaque bearing the following epitaph in French: "Political prisoners, prisoners of war and municipal authorities remember. 1945-1975 "


1. Grenatovsky Maksim Kirilovitch GUTEKANOVSKY M.

Born 1901, RSS d’Ukraine, Prov. de Poltava

Adresse: Région de Krasnodar, District Okhtiarsky, Stepnaya

Died 13.12.1943

2. Kirilov Alekseï Konstantinovitch KIVELOV ALEXIS

Born 1913, Prov. de Iaroslavl, District de Gavriloyamsk, Oyamkovo

Died 22.03.1943

3. Kustov Vassili Mikhaïlovitch KUSTOW WASILY

Born 10.05.1917, Saratov

Died 12.05.1943

4. Litvinenko Saveli Fedorovitch LITVENKO SAWELY

Born 1907, RSS d’Ukraine, Prov. de Dniepropetrovsk,

District de Novomoskovsk, Nikolaevka

Died 26.05.1943 (21.01.1943)

5. Minaev Dmitir Maksimovitch MINAY DMITRI

Born 20.10.1900, RSS d’Ukraine, Vorochilovgrad

Adresse: Vorochilovgrad, rue. 4 Donetskaya, 58

Died 10.01.1943

6. Rudenko Sergeï Ilitch ROUDENKO SERGE

Born 20.09.1900 (1906), УССР, Киевская обл., Бабанский р-н, д.Островец

Died 26.05.1943

7. Smal Ivan Aleksandrovitch SMALL IVAN

Born 1902, RSS d’Ukraine, Prov. de Tchernigov, Smolyanka

Died 05.01.1944

8. Strarodubets Georgi Kirilovitch STARADULEZ GEORGY

Born 1895, Prov. de Kherson

Died 25(29).01.1943

9. Chelipov Vassili Fedorovitch SKEPILOW WASSALY

Born 05.10.1906, Prov. de Kursk, District d’Oktiabrsk, Bytchek,

Adresse: Province Stalinskaya,  Makeevka, rue St Tsernalnaya 465

Died 02.11.1943

10. Chemtchuk Grigori Moissevitch SCHENTSKUK MOISSE

Born 1900, RSS d’Ukraine, Prov. de Vinnitsa, District Barnovitsky, Stepanovka

Died 15.01.1943