page_title: Vasily Banykin
section_title: Memorialization
hierarchical_section_title: Vasily Banykin / Memorialization
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument of Vasily Banikin, Togliatti, RussiaРусский: Стела-монумент Василию Баныкину, Тольятти, Россия
context_page_description: Vasily Vasilevich Banykin was one of the founders of Soviet power in the city of Tolyatti. He was the First Chairman of the Executive Committee of that city. He was killed when Stavropol was falling to the Czech Legion during the Russian Civil War.
context_section_description: Banykin died when the Left SRs were still in coalition with the Bolsheviks, and therefore could not be declared an enemy of the people. Instead, he was declared by the Soviets to have been an active Bolshevik, not just a prominent public figure but a prominent member of the Communist Party. References to Banykin as a Bolshevik appeared in newspapers and books. Only after 1980 did documents surface showing that Banykin was never a Communist.
  Banykin is one of the four martyrs immortalized on one of the faces of the Obelisk of Glory in Liberty Square in Tolyatti. The other three are a soldier, a sailor, and an airman of World War II.
  Also in honor of Banykin there is a plaque on the house where he lived, and a memorial stele on Banykin's grave, in a memorial complex on the banks of the Volga.
  A street was named after him in Stavropol; when Stavropol was submerged and relocated to the present Tolyatti, a small street in a residential sector was named for him. By decree number 647/31 of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of Tolyatti on 1 November 1967, he was described as one "who fell at the hands of the enemy in the line of duty" and given a more important street as a namesake. In the same resolution City Clinical Hospital Number 2 of Togliatti was named for Banykin.
  One of the training ships of the Tolyatti Young Sailors Club was named Vasily Banykin.
caption: Memorial stele honoring Banykin
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