Soviet War Memorial, Strasse Des 17 Juni, Berlin

This memorial commemorates the 80,000 Soviet troops who died during the fierce 1945 battle for Berlin and was unveiled on 7 November 1945. The memorial is also a war cemetery - approximately 2,500 Soviet troops lied buried in its grounds. The memorial is close to the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. The column was made of marble taken from Hitler’s Reich Chancellery. Two T-34 tanks that took part in the battle for Berlin and two artillery pieces act as gate guards.  

After the Second World War, the Soviet Memorial was in the British sector of Berlin, but an agreement was reached whereby it formed a kind of non-territorial enclave so that Soviet forces stationed in the city might have access to it.