Tomb of People's Heroes ( sr, Гробница народних хероја, Grobnica narodnih heroja) in
Belgrade
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is located underneath the walls of the
Belgrade Fortress. It holds the remains of four recipients of the
Order of the People's Hero of
SFR Yugoslavia
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.
It was built in 1948. Remains of
Ivo Lola Ribar (1916–1943) and
Ivan Milutinović
Ivan Milutinović (nickname Milutin; sr-cyr, Иван Милутиновић; 27 September 1901 – 23 October 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II.
Before the war
In October ...
(1901–1944) were buried there on 29 March 1948. Remains of
Đuro Đaković (1886–1929) were buried on the 20th anniversary of his death on 29 April 1949.
Moša Pijade
Moša Pijade ( sr-Cyrl, Мoшa Пијаде; he, משה פיאדה; alternate English transliteration Moshe Piade; 4 January 1890 – 15 March 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (, lit. "Old Man Janko") was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist of ...
(1890–1957) was buried in the tomb in March 1957.
Stevan Bodnarov, a sculptor from Belgrade, designed the busts of Ivo Lola Ribar, Ivan Milutinović and Đuro Đaković in 1949. The bust of Moša Pijade was designed by
Slavoljub Stanković
Slavoljub or Slavolub (Cyrillic script: Славољуб) is a masculine given name derived from the Slavic elements: ''slava'' "glory, famous" and ''ljub'' "favour, love, to like". Nicknames: Slava, Slavko, Ljuba. Other form: Ljuboslav.
List of ...
in 1959.
The tomb was declared Monument of Culture by the
City Assembly of Belgrade in 1983.
Grobnica narodnih heroja
National Center for Digitization, Serbia
Gallery
File:Lola Ribar spomenik.JPG, Bust of Ivo Lola Ribar.
File:Bista Ivana Milutinovica 1.JPG, Bust of Ivan Milutinović.
File:Bista Djure Dajkovica Kalemegdan.jpg, Bust of Đuro Đaković.
File:Mosa Pijade-Kalemegdan.jpg, Bust of Moša Pijade.
See also
*Tomb of the People's Heroes, Zagreb
The Tomb of the People's Heroes ( hr, Grobnica narodnih heroja) is located in Zagreb's central graveyard, Mirogoj. It was designed by the Croatian sculptor Đuro Kavurić and built in 1968. Buried in the tomb are not only the recipients of the ...
*Tomb of National Heroes (Ljubljana)
The Tomb of National Heroes ( sl, Grobnica narodnih herojev, also ) in Ljubljana, Slovenia is a tomb and a monument for the national heroes of the World War II resistance struggle in Slovenia, created in 1949. The designers of the tomb and the mon ...
References
Kalemegdan
Buildings and structures completed in 1948
Buildings and structures in Belgrade
Tourist attractions in Belgrade
Tombs
Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials
Sculptures in Serbia
Yugoslav Serbian architecture
Cultural depictions of Yugoslav people
Stari Grad, Belgrade
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