Wołkusz [ˈvɔu̯kuʂ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lipsk, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

Its creation dates back to the years 1562-1569, in which the Wołkusz manor house was built (as the seat of the Perstuń forester) to service the surrounding villages of osoczniks - guards of the royal forest (Leśne Bohatery, Starożyńce, Kurianka and the peasant village of Skieblewo).

It is a symbolic grave of the staff captain Wieczysław Aleksandrowicz, officer of the 29th artillery brigade from the Smolensk Governorate.

He died in February 1915 in the fight against the Germans, probably right next to the bridge on Wołkuszanka (there is a memorial chapel there) and his body was moved and buried in the place where the monument stands.

After the war, the father, also a tsarist officer, took his son's body to be buried in his homeland, and in the place of the grave he erected a monument with an inscription crowned with a huge cross.