There are more than three thousand Soviet soldiers, guerrillas and clandestine fighters who perished in the struggle against Nazi invaders in the Kotlyarevsky park. The names of heroes: A. I. Zygin, Lieutenant-General, Army Commander, J. A. Sudakov, a private, S. F. Kondratenko and G. F. Yatsenko, secretaries of the underground Poltava Regional Committee of the USSR Communist Party, F. E. Polishchuk, commander of the guerrilla group, P. A. Lidov and S. N. Strunnykov, the military correspondents of the newspaper Pravda, A. A. Kuznetsov, correspondent of the newspaper Izvestia have been carved in the granite slabs... A triangular 22 meter high obelisk of gray granite at the top of which there is the inscription “Glory to the heroes is immortal” rises in the middle of the park. Next to the obelisk there is a six meter high granite figure of the Soviet soldier who holds his shield depicting the monument of Glory, the symbol of the heroic Past of Poltava. It embodies the great idea of unbreakable historical connection between heroism of the Soviet soldiers and the victory of the Russian troops near Poltava in 1709. Memorial has been unveiled on October 12, 1969. The Eternal Flame has been lit with the torch brought from the Grave of Unknown Soldier in Kyiv. The memorial has been created by the sculptor E.M.Kuntsevych, the architects I.V. Mezentsev, I.Ya. Kyslyi, L.S. Weinhort.
 
Close to the Memorial of Soldier's Glory there is the common grave of fascism victims that ten thousand Soviet citizens killed by Hitlerites in that place during the occupation time in Poltava have been buried in. A granite stele portraying a sorrowful woman has been installed above the grave. The words: “We keep you in our hearts” have been imprinted thereat. The creators of the monument are A. Chernetsky, L. Weinhort, P. Humych, I. Fomin.