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The Khatsun Memorial Complex (Russian: Мемориальный комплекс "Хацунь") is the first monument in Russia which was built in honor of villages burned during the great Patriotic war. It commemorates the war victims among the Russian civilian population. The Khatsun Memorial Complex "was inaugurated in 2011, the year of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War".

History of the village of Khatsun
In the autumn of 1941, in the Bryansk region, the Nazis attacked Soviet military units. On October 24, 1941, a group of Soviet soldiers entered the forest village of Khatsun. They "engaged in battle with three Germans who escorted prisoners of war". They did not know that at that time the Nazi troops had a decree: for every German soldier killed, one hundred local residents must be executed. The next morning of October 25, three detachments of punishers gathered everyone who was in the village. 318 people were killed in the Khatsun tragedy and their village was burned.

The history of the memorial
"Talk about the need to perpetuate the memory of those who were shot in Khatsun began almost immediately after the liberation of the Bryansk region from the Nazi invaders. However, the real embodiment of this idea started only in 1977." On the day of the 70th anniversary of the Khatsun tragedy-October 25, 2011 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony.

The exhibition of the memorial complex
"The complex consists of: the monumental building of the museum; granite columns resembling the skeletal remains of chimneys of burned-down houses". On the territory of the memorial complex at the place of mass burial of the victims of the tragedy, the plates with the names of the victims are installed. They are placed at the same order in which the houses of the executed families were located. Today, the memorial complex also has an Orthodox chapel with Golden tears on the dome-an obelisk of military glory. There is also a wall of memory with a six-meter sculpture group: an old man defends a sobbing mother and her child from bayonets.