Ilinden (memorial)

Construction of the memorial began in 1972. The entire Ilinden memorial complex was officially opened on August 2, 1974 to the 30th anniversary of the second session of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of National Liberation of Macedonia and the 71st anniversary of the uprising in Ilinden against the Ottoman Empire ^[1] . The authors of the monument complex are Jordan Grabulovsky (Grabuloski) and Iskra Grabulovskaya. The monument is made in futuristic style.

The mosaic works were made by the famous artist Borko Lazevsky, the ceramics were made by Yare Petar Mazev.

The memorial is dedicated to the fighters and revolutionaries who took part in the uprising in Ilinden in 1903, as well as to the memory of the Macedonian partisan soldiers of the Yugoslavia People’s Liberation War of 1941-1944.

The total area of ​​the memorial is about 16 hectares. The monument has the shape of a round dome with oval windows. The upper windows are made of colored glass. Inside the dome is the grave of Nikola Karev , a Bulgarian-Macedonian revolutionary, a leader of the Macedonian-Odrinsky revolutionary organization, a member of the Eulden uprising, the head of the Krushevsky Republic and a bust of the singer Toshe Proeski . The interior of the dome has four windows, each facing the direction associated with the Ilinden events ^[2] .

The memorial complex also includes a square with a series of sculptures called “Breaking the Chains”, symbolizing freedom, the victory in the liberation wars; there is also a stone slab with names engraved on it and major events related to the period before, during and after the uprising in Ilinden; the upper segment of the amphitheater is decorated with colorful mosaics.

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  "Breaking the chains," symbol of freedom

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  Crypt

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  Amphitheater

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  Amphitheater and Macedonium

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  View of the grave in the monument

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  Monument from the inside

• List of monuments of the People’s Liberation War of Yugoslavia in Northern Macedonia

• The krusevo maconium