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A monument to the victims of the Holodomor was opened in the city of Pavlodar, to the victims of the terrible famine of the 1930s. The monument was erected at the entrance to the city, at the Muslim cemetery, a place where people who died of starvation were mass buried. The monument represents a woman dying of hunger with a baby in her arms, at that time mothers gave the last food to their children, that the children lived, and the mothers themselves died, it was a terrible time that should never happen again. The composition of the monument also includes a broken shanyrak (the upper part of the yurt structure), as a symbol of broken hopes.
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The monument to the victims of the Holodomor is located in the city of Pavlodar, Pavlodar region, Republic of Kazakhstan.
GPS coordinates: 52°18'26"N 76°55'29"E
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The author of the monument to the victims of the Holodomor of 1929-1933, sculptor Marat Abylkasymov. When the monument was unveiled, elders, youth, leaders of religious denominations and ethnic diasporas of the city of Pavlodar gathered here for a peaceful demonstration to honor the memory of the dead people. The background to this terrible period in people's lives was the famine of the 1930s. In those years, the peoples of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan suffered greatly; over 1.5 million people died of hunger. During the period of food shortages, about 300 thousand people died in the Pavlodar region. For example, on May 1-2, 1931, the bodies of 435 people who died of hunger were found on the streets of Pavlodar.
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