Fleurus (Vieux-Campinaire) - Tombs of prisoners of war and partisans dead in Belgium during World War II
List of Soviet military graves in Belgium
- Arlon
- Awenne
- Balen
- Bruxelles, Etterbeek
- Bruxelles, Evere
- Bruxelles, Ixelles
- Champlon
- Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont
- Chimay
- Comblain-au-Pont
- Dotsenko Tree (Bois de Stepennes)
- Engreux
- Flawinne
- Fleurus (Vieux-Campinaire)
- Genk
- Gent
- Han-sur-Lesse
- Han-sur-Lesse
- Hannut
- Houthalen
- Hoves /Silly
- Jumet-Gohyssart
- Koersel
- Kortemark
- Lanklaar
- Leopoldsburg
- Les Villettes
- Leuven
- Linden
- Liège, Citadelle
- Liège, Cointe
- Liège, Robermont
- Liège, Saint-Walburge
- Marchienne-au-Pont
- Maurage
- Montignies-sur-Sambre
- Morlanwez
- Mussy-la-Ville
- Namur, Belgrad
- Nidrum
- Peissant
- Proven
- Quévy
- Rebecq
- Reninge
- Robertville (Orthodox cross)
- Sougné-Remouchamps
- Sprimont (Dotsenko Monument)
- Stal-Koersel
- Tessenderlo
- Trois Ponts
- Westvleteren
- Zolder
Fleurus (Vieux-Campinaire)
In a mass grave at the cemetery of Fleurus (according to some sources this burial is called Vieux-Campinaire) (Hainaut province), five Soviet citizens were buried. The grave is a site framed by a border, covered with crushed brick. On vertical headboard stone there are five names with the dates of burial, a red star and an inscription in Russian “Sleep well, sons of Russia, the Motherland remembers you.”
According to available information, these five soldiers died in German captivity during hard labor in coal mines in the area of Charleroi in 1943.
The registry of the cemetery has two unmarked graves marked “Russian”, but the location of these graves cannot be determined.
List of the buried
| Last and first name | Place and date of birth | Date of death | |||
| 1908, Kamenetz – Podolsk region | 05.04.1943 | ||||
| 1921, Kazakh SSR | 22.01.1943 | ||||
| 1898, Ordzhonikidze region | 08.01.1943 | ||||
| 29.01.1900, Semiyarsk | 06.01.1943 | ||||
| 06.06.1910, Kursk, village of Potkornoy | 26.11.1943 | ||||
- Unknown (location of grave not identified)
- Unknown (location of grave not identified)
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Dear visitors,
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that spelling of the names, surnames and places of birth of Soviet citizens buried in Belgium may be distorted due to the fact that they are quite often written only in Flemish and French in registration books and on monuments.
We thank the Brussels-Belgian Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, the organizations of Russian compatriots and Russian foreign institutions accredited in Belgium for providing photos and their efforts to preserve the memory of the heroism of the Soviet soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War.
The Embassy will be grateful for providing any information and photos of Soviet military graves of the Second World War in Belgium and the ceremonies held on them. Please send material to the email address of the Embassy amrusbel@skynet.be with the note «War Graves».