Cross of Memory to the Victims of the Holodomor, Kharkiv
The first sign to the Holodomor's victims in Ukraine — a wooden cross of 1989 in a park on the site of an old cemetery.
Molodizhnyi Park was laid out on the site of Kharkiv's first municipal cemetery of the 18th century, where in the 1930s those who died of the Holodomor were secretly buried between the graves; according to the Academy's Institute for Demography, Kharkiv region lost 19–20 per cent of its population — the most in Ukraine, together with Kyiv region. In the autumn of 1989 Volodymyr Pasichnyk, head of the People's Movement (Rukh), secretly placed a wooden cross in the park — the first memorial sign to the Holodomor's victims in Ukraine, which stands to this day; a local-history article of 2009 dates the cross to 1993. The 18-hectare park was reconstructed in 2020–2021, preserving the memorial signs and the graves of Kropyvnytsky, Vasylkivsky and Hulak-Artemovsky. The regional memorial to the Holodomor's victims — a bronze family on a ten-metre mound by sculptor Oleksandr Ridnyi — opened on 19 November 2008 in the village of Cherkaska Lozova; the region has over a hundred memorial signs.
A wooden cross, erected in the autumn of 1989, stands in Molodizhnyi Park on Skovorody Street (formerly Pushkinska), next to the old city necropolis (Radio Nakypilo, 22.11.2025). The park is open, entry free. Kharkiv is regularly under strikes, including on 28.09.2026 (ArmyInform, 28.09.2026) and 30.09.2026 (Slovo i Dilo, 30.09.2026).