The burial of Mykola Kuznetsov in Lviv

Lviv, July 27, 1960. Telechronika program, episode 93. The reburial of Mykola Kuznetsov in Lviv, video without sound.

The video shows the Opera House, the Lenin monument, Lenin Avenue (now Svobody Avenue), Mykola Kuznetsov Street (now Kleparivska Street). Mykola Kuznetsov Street (now Kleparivska Street), a photo of Kuznetsov; people saying goodbye, a bus arrives, they bring flowers and wreaths, they bring them into the Officers' House; the coffin is being taken out, put on an open car, a photo of Kuznetsov is being carried, a procession on Teatralna Street, entering the Hill of Glory; speeches by speakers, the coffin is being lowered into the grave, an orchestra is playing, farewell volleys, eternal flame; a table “Hero of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov N. I. born in 1911, died on 9.3.1944”.

Reference: Mykola Kuznetsov was a Soviet saboteur, special agent-liquidator, NKVD agent, partisan, and scout. During the Second World War, he performed terrorist and provocative tasks for the Soviet command. He personally killed several senior officers and high-ranking officials of the occupation administration of Nazi Germany. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.

According to the official version, he died on March 8, 1944, in the village of Bopatyn, Brody district, Lviv region, in a battle with the UPA. In 1960, he was reburied on the Hill of Glory in Lviv. Lviv right-wing radicals have repeatedly vandalized Kuznetsov's grave, and in March 2019, unknown persons stole a bronze bas-relief from his grave.

In 2020, his niece appealed to the Lviv authorities. The woman asked to exhume his ashes from the Hill of Glory to bury him in Yekaterinburg. However, this was never done.

In 2025, Lviv began researching and exhuming graves on the territory of the Hill of Glory. Among the graves to be moved to the Holoskiv Cemetery are the remains of NKVD agent Mykola Kuznetsov and Major Stepan Putin.