Kharitonenko Ivan Gerasimovich The largest entrepreneur of the Kharkov province of his time. Benefactor. Maecenas. The person to whom the city of Sumy owes its development. Symbolic guardian of Petropavlovskaya street. At the beginning of the street - his monument, at the end - his grave. The bronze monument to Kharitonenko was cast in 1899, in Paris, according to the project of the sculptor Opekushin O. M. and installed opposite the Church of the Intercession (now defunct). In the Soviet period, the monument was destroyed, and Ulyanov V.→