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The Memorial served as the central war memorial of East Germany. The monument is one of three Soviet memorials built in Berlin after the end of the war. The other two memorials are the Tiergarten memorial, built in 1945 in the Tiergarten district of what later became West Berlin, and the Schönholzer Heide Memorial in Berlin's Pankow district.
The Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal in der Schönholzer Heide) in Pankow, Berlin was erected between May 1947 and November 1949, and covers an area of 30,000 square metres (7.4 acres). The memorial contains the largest Soviet cemetery in Berlin, which is also the largest Russian cemetery in Europe outside of Russia.
East Berlin (German: Ost-Berlin; pronounced [ˈɔstbɛʁˌliːn] ⓘ) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Soviet occupation sector of Berlin .
Scharnhorst Memorial, Berlin; Siegesallee; Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide) Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park) Statue of Frederick the Great (Charlottenburg Palace)
Aerial view of the memorial with honor guards, West Berlin, 1983. The memorial was built from stonework taken from the destroyed Reich Chancellery.Built in a style similar to other Soviet World War II monuments that were once found all over the former Eastern Bloc, the memorial takes the form of a curved stoa topped by a large statue of a Soviet soldier.
A Spanish tourist has been seriously injured in a stabbing attack at Berlin's Holocaust memorial two days before a watershed national election.. Officers arrested a suspect on Friday evening ...
Pages in category "Buildings and structures of East Berlin" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
Putin’s five-year sojourn in Dresden, which abruptly ended in 1990, has come under renewed scrutiny as the 70-year-old Russian president prosecutes an increasingly brutal and bloody war in ...