The monument to Nestor Makhno was erected in 2009 in the center of the city of Huliaipole, in the birthplace of the famous anarchist, the leader of the peasant insurgent movement in the south-east of Ukraine in 1917-1919.

The concrete sculpture is a copy of the plaster monument that was erected a year before in Huliaipole in front of Makhno's older brother's house, which has survived. The commander of the Revolutionary Rebel Army, Nestor Makhno, is depicted sitting in a military uniform and papas with a saber in his hand.

During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed the Nestor Makhno monument, which was an unofficial symbol of the city, with a missile strike in 2024. However, already in September of the same year, the school was re ...

The monument to Nestor Makhno was erected in 2009 in the center of the city of Huliaipole, in the birthplace of the famous anarchist, the leader of the peasant insurgent movement in the south-east of Ukraine in 1917-1919.

The concrete sculpture is a copy of the plaster monument that was erected a year before in Huliaipole in front of Makhno's older brother's house, which has survived. The commander of the Revolutionary Rebel Army, Nestor Makhno, is depicted sitting in a military uniform and papas with a saber in his hand.

During the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed the Nestor Makhno monument, which was an unofficial symbol of the city, with a missile strike in 2024. However, already in September of the same year, the school was restored.