Park of Memory (Kyiv Crematorium)

Парк памяти (Киевский крематорий)

USSRКиев1968–1981MonumentsBrutalism

The Park of Memory at the Kyiv crematorium (1968–1981, architect A. Miletsky; reliefs by A. Rybachuk and V. Melnychenko). The concrete "Wall of Memory" bore bas-reliefs on themes ranging from the myth of Prometheus to postwar reconstruction; in 1982 the reliefs were deemed inconsistent with the official canon and covered over with concrete — the technical possibility of uncovering them remains to this day.

Парк памяти при киевском крематории (1968–1981, арх. А. Милецкий; рельефы А. Рыбачук и В. Мельниченко). Бетонная «Стена памяти» несла барельефы на темы от мифа о Прометее до послевоенного восстановления; в 1982 году рельефы сочли не соответствующими канону и залили бетоном — техническая возможность их раскрыть сохраняется поныне.

Construction cost

3 000 000 руб., 1981 prices

Vladimir Melnichenko (co-creator) stated in a 2018 interview with Focus.ua that "the budget for the complex was 3 million rubles including land and equipment" ("Бюджет комплекса составлял 3 млн руб. с землей и оборудованием"), with the Wall of Memory's separate budget being only 218,000 rubles. This is a participant recollection, not a primary state archival document. The figure covers the entire Parк pamyati complex (crematorium + halls + park infrastructure) built 1968–1981 in Soviet post-1961 rubles. No independent corroborating archival source was found.