The battle's first anniversary, which included a memorial service held by families of fallen students, was mentioned in Ukrainian press on 30 January 1919, a few days before the
new capture of Kyiv by the Bolsheviks. An accurate history of the battle was long suppressed by the
Soviet government. The memory about the event was preserved in
Western Ukraine and among the
Ukrainian diaspora, where it became a subject of numerous poems and other publications. The battle has been described as the "Free World's First Resistance To Communism" by historian
Volodymyr Yaniv, as it was one of the earliest examples of a free people resisting an invasion by a foreign communist army intent on subjugating them, a precursor to the
Russian invasion of Georgia two years later in 1921. On 29 January 1991 the
People's Movement of Ukraine installed a
birch memorial cross in the vicinity of the battlefield. In 1998 a
mound with a
stele was constructed nearby. {{Blockquote|Near Kruty the Kyiv military cadets and students became the forerunners of the Ukrainian political nation. Having different ethnic roots, they as one fought for our Ukrainian State. As the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the base of the Ukrainian statehood, so the heroism of the Kruty's warriors became the beginning and the symbol of liberating struggles of Ukrainians for the liberty in the past 20th century. On 1 March 2022, during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in the area around the villages of Pamiatne and Khoroshe Ozero reportedly resulted in nearly 200 Russian troops being killed in action, according to local officials. Before the fighting, Russian soldiers took photos near the
Kruty Heroes Memorial and fired on it. ==In culture==