Memorial to fallen Soviet soldiers in the Greater Tiergarten park in Berlin. Archival photo BERLIN, May 9. Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergei Nechaev laid a wreath at the memorial to the fallen Soviet soldiers in Berlin's Tiergarten park, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The event was also attended by the ambassadors of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The event took place with increased police duty, no incidents were observed. The action was covered by numerous representatives of the world media. «Seventy-seven years ago, a heroic victory over Nazism was won, Germany was liberated, Europe was liberated, and therefore this day, for which we paid with a huge number of victims, will remain for many, many generations, forever. This our eternal memory,» Nechaev told reporters. Opened on November 11, 1945, the Tiergarten memorial was created by sculptors Lev Kerbel and Vladimir Tsigal, as well as architect Nikolai Sergievsky. Two Soviet T-34 tanks stand on pedestals on both sides of the main entrance. During the Berlin offensive in April 1945, these tanks were among the first to enter the city. Behind the tanks, two cannons were mounted, with their volleys proclaiming the end of the Battle of Berlin. an eight-meter bronze statue of a Red Army soldier symbolizes the end of the war. The soldier holds a weapon on his shoulder, his left hand is extended over the fallen comrades resting at the foot of the monument: the memorial is also a cemetery for more than 2 thousand Soviet soldiers.Victory Day celebration. Online Reporting >>>
