The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide on the Pechersk Slopes is a memorial complex that honors the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, officially recognized by the Law of Ukraine of 2006 as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people. The memorial was opened in 2010 according to the design of architect Yuriy Kovalev and sculptors Mykola Obezyuk and Petro Drozdovsky. The author of the idea of the complex was People’s Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Haydamaka.
The memorial space consists of several symbolic parts: the “Mill of Fate” square with the sculpture of a girl “Bitter Memory of Childhood”, the alley of “Black Boards” with a list of villages to which the regime of extermination of the population was applied, and the central symbol of the complex – the “Candle of Memory”, surrounded by storks, iron crosses and stone blocks. Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, Kyiv residents and guests of the capital gather here to light candles in memory of the dead. The museum is included in the State Protocol of Ukraine, and every foreign leader who comes to Kyiv on an official visit visits this place.