Berlin: area by area – Tiergarten – Sowjetisches Ehrenmal

In Tiergarten Park at the back of the Brandenburg Gate on the Strasse des 17. Juni you pass a bronze Red Army soldier and two Soviet tanks: The Soviet Cenotaph was built in 1945-46 using the marble from the remains of Hitler's seat of government - the Neue Reichskanzlei - in Voss-Strasse. Behind the cenotaph are the graves of 2000 Soviet soldiers.

Design: the sculptors Lew E. Kerbel and Wladimir E. Zigal together with the architect Nikolai W. Sergijewski.