Ivan Šparovec, grave at Pečice, Udin Boršt

The grave was marked in 1985 with a marble column in the shape of a star. Author of the monument: arch. Vojteh Ravnikar

Ivan Šparovec, a fighter of the Kokra detachment, was captured and shot on 29 April 1945 on the road between Naklo and Kokrica. The Carinthian Gestapo officers Miha Perko and Anton Boncelj took him on 29 April 1945 by car from the internment camps in Begunje to the road Naklo - Kokrica, to the place Pečice, where the captured partizan Ivan Šparovec was. They ordered him to get out and go with them into the forest south of the road. 90 m from the road they shot him. After the killing they reported to the gendarmerie in Naklo that he had been shot during an attempt to escape. He was buried at the place of the killing. Ivan Šparovec, a shoemaker's assistant, was born in Zadraga near Duplje. He started working for OF in the autumn of 1942, after returning from the internment camp for military prisoners in Germany. On 20 May 1944 he joined the Gorenjska detachment, and later became a fighter in the Kokra detachment. On 7 April 1945 he was captured and taken to Begunje, from where Miha Perko took him and with the help of Boncelj shot him on 29 April 1945.

Janez Šparovec. Sistory.

Franc Štefe Miško idr. Udin boršt, 1982 (Monuments of the workers' revolutionary movement and the national liberation struggle in Slovenia, 31). 55.

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Professional plans for the protection of cultural heritage for the area of Naklo Municipality

Decision on the proclamation of Udin boršt Memorial Park as a historical and cultural monument, Official Gazette of Gorenjska, no. 20/85-229

The path to the monument is marked with wooden signs (arrows), however the monument is not cleaned of lichen and algae, and the surrounding area is not tidied up. OO ZBNOB Naklo and Naklo Municipality (according to ZVKD) are striving to properly arrange the cultural heritage.

The second picture shows the condition of the monument after its restoration by Ivan Krivc in December 2016.