Soviet War Memorial Treptow

Designed by Soviet architect Yakov Belopolskiy and Soviet sculptor Yevgeniy Vuchetich, it depicts a Soviet soldier holding a child with a sword in his hand, on a fragmented version of the Nazi symbol, the Swastika. There are also the graves of approximately 7 thousand Soviet soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin in the square where the monument, which is approximately 12 meters long and weighs 70 tons, is located.

The monument is among the symbols that tell the liberation of the European peoples from fascism with the defeat of the Nazis in the Great Patriotic War. II in Berlin. It is one of three Soviet war memorials built after World War II. Two other monuments are located in Tiergarten and Pankow. The monument is also part of a sculptural triptych with a war sword, along with the Back-Forward Monument in Magnitogorsk and the Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd.