Soviet War Memorial
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war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park
Key facts
- Established
- 8 May 1949 ( 1949-05-08 )
- Designed by
- Yakov Belopolsky
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- TreptowEhrenmal10.JPG
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- Commons category
- Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
- start time
- 1949-05-08
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- Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Treptower Park)
- inception
- 1949-05-08
- native label
- Sowjetisches Ehrenmal
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The Soviet War Memorial (German: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) is a 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 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after the end of World War II in Europe, on 8 May 1949. 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.