The Soviet War Memorial (sometimes translated as the Soviet Cenotaph), 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 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April-May 1945. It opened four years after the war ended on May 8, 1949, and served as the central war memorial of East Germany.
at Treptower Park
Paul Snowden Creative Designer
A place of peace in the shadow of war...
Tour de Bear Berlin by bike
Start your day sightseeing through Treptower Park. It's beautiful, vast, has the River Spree running through, and is home to the impressive Russian War Memorial. The memorial is massive, like some relic from a sci-fi flick, a la StarGate. Scenes from Russian war history play out on stone panels along the sides of the garden, while a momentous statue of a soldier stands almost hovering atop rows of trees.previous next
