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Houthalen

Four Soviet citizens – prisoners of war who died in 1943 – are buried in a mass grave at the cemetery of Houthalen (Limburg province). A concrete cross was erected over the grave (in November 2006 by order of the Embassy), with engraved names and dates of birth and death. Once a year, in November, on the Memorial Day of all the fallen, flowers from the municipality are laid on the burial place, and on May 9 – wreaths from the Russian Embassy.

List of the buried

First and last name

Date and place of birth

Date of death

Trembachev Maksim Ivanovich
Trembatchew Maxim

21.01.1896
Voronezh region, Evdakovsky district, village of Krutets

Civil

11.02.1943

Bykov Pavel Daniilovich
Bijkow Pawel

1913
Tambov region, Platonovsky district, Shatilovo

Residence: Primorye Territory, Pozharsky district, Guberovo

31.03.1943

Titko Makar Lazarevich
Titko Makar

15.01.1913
Baranavichy region, Shilovichi

14.04.1943

Usanov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Ussonow Nikolaj

06.05.1908
Penza region, Ishkino

Residence: Turkmen SSR, Ashgabat, 185 ul. Svobody

11.11.1943

 

Annual memorial ceremonies

2023

2021

2020

2018

2017

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010


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».