The Soviet War Memorial is a vast war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 7,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949.
Along with the larger Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park and a third one in Pankow, the monuments commemorate the central role of the Soviet Army soldiers who fought and fell in the last bitter days of the battle for Berlin just before Hitler’s death on April 30, 1945 and Germany’s final surrender on May 8 – remembered today as VE or Victory in Europe Day.
What there is to see: There are three separate sites of Soviet war memorials in Berlin: Treptower Park, Schönholzer Heide, and the one near the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate in Tiergarten. The Treptower Park complex of war memorials is dominated by a huge bronze statue, over 40 foot/12m tall, placed on a mound and a pedestal that contains a small memorial hall.
The Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park was built after the end of World War II. The military council of the Soviet military administration in Germany had sponsored a competition in the fall of 1946 that explicitly solicited designs foregrounding the liberation from National Socialism, rather than the idea of victory.
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and cemetery built to commemorate Russian soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin … large soldier statue …
The Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.
The central statue at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin It makes for an incredibly powerful image and matches with many of the Soviet sculptures and depictions in art that we’ve seen during our time travelling in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is one … of the three main Soviet war memorials in Berlin … statue of the Soviet soldier carrying a rescued …
Situated in Berlin’s Treptower Park, the Soviet War Memorial is a massive war memorial and military cemetery commemorating 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin during April–May 1945.
The Soviet War Memorial is a curved colonnade with one central column atop which sits a 8 meter (26 ft) tall bronze statue of a Soviet soldier. The statue was designed by the Russian sculptor Lev Kerbel, and shows the soldier with a weapon over his shoulder, which symbolizes the end of the war.