Description of the attraction
The memorial stone to Konstantin Simonov was installed on the Buinichi field in 1980. According to the will of the Soviet writer, who died in 1979, his ashes were scattered over the Buinichi field, along with the ashes of soldiers and officers who died in the battles for the liberation of Mogilev. At the place where the funeral ceremony of scattering the ashes took place, an ancient glacial boulder weighing 15 tons was erected, on which the autograph of Konstantin Simonov was engraved, and on the reverse side the inscription: “K. M. Simonov. 1915 - 1979. All his life he remembered this battlefield of 1941 and bequeathed to scatter his ashes here. The stone was previously located on the territory of the Museum of Boulders.
In his youth, Konstantin Simonov was a war correspondent for the Izvestia newspaper. He was present on the Buinichi field during the fierce battles for the city of Mogilev. He saw everything with his own eyes and later described it in the novel "The Living and the Dead", "Soldiers are Not Born", "The Last Summer" and the diary "Different Days of the War".
The heart of Konstantin Simonov will forever remain with the city of Mogilev, dear and memorable for him, and the ashes went only to the free wind, walking along the battlefield of the last brutal war that has died down forever. Thanks to Simonov, we will never forget the days of horror and glory of the Great Patriotic War and what the defenders of the Buinichi field did for the descendants.
Meetings with veterans of the Great Patriotic War are held here every year. Students and schoolchildren come here to honor the memory of the great Soviet writer. Literary meetings and youth memorial meetings are held here.
