One of the Soviet War Memorials in Berlin.

Berlin has 12 Soviet war memorials, and there are several more in the vicinity of the city. Here is a guide to them all

Soviet war memorials are burial sites for Soviet soldiers who died during the Battle of Berlin. Some of the memorials have a huge monument marking them, while others are not particularly striking.

Find them all on the map and read more about each of them further down.

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Soviet War Memorials in Berlin

The Soviet war memorial in Schönholzer Heide.

Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide

This is the largest Soviet war memorial outside Russia. It was finished in 1949, and 13,200 Soviet soldiers are laid to rest here.
Address: Germanenstraße 17, 13156 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park

This is the second largest Soviet war memorial in Berlin in number of graves, but it is the largest in geographical size. It was completed in 1949 with around 7,000 Soviet soldiers buried there.
Address: Am Treptower Park 50, 12435 Berlin

An artillery gun in at the Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten, Berlin.

Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten

This is the only Soviet war memorial in former West Berlin. It was completed in 1945, and more than 2,000 Soviet soldiers are buried behind the colonnade.
Address: Straße des 17. Juni 4, 10557 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Marzahn

This memorial is located in the Parkfriedhof cemetery and was completed in 1958. The large urn contains the ashes of 142 Soviet soldiers, and a total of 458 Soviet soldiers are buried in the cemetery.
Address: Wiesenburger Weg 10, 12681 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Schöneiche bei Berlin

239 soldiers and two civilians are buried here. 80 of them are in individual graves and the rest in a mass grave. The memorial was established with a stone in 1946, and the obelisk was added the following year. It’s located in Brandenburg, on the Berlin border, in a jointly administered area.
Address: Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 76, 15566 Schöneiche bei Berlin

The Soviet War memorial in Buch, Berlin.

Soviet War Memorial in Buch

This memorial was completed in 1948, and initially 200 soldiers were buried here. The dead were later moved to the memorial in Schönholzer Heide.
Address: Wiltbergstraße, 13125 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Rummelsburg

The memorial marked a grave of about 200 soldiers who died nearby. The monument was built between 1946 and 1947 or no later than 1950. In 1948, the bodies were exhumed and reburied at the memorial in Treptower Park.
Address: Nöldnerstraße 43, 10317 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Güterfelde

This memorial is at Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde cemetery, where 1,466 Soviet citizens rest, mostly forced laborers and some soldiers. Although the memorial is located in Brandenburg, the cemetery is administered by the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Address: Potsdamer Damm 11 a-c, 14532 Güterfelde

Soviet War Memorial in Herzbergstraße

This memorial is located on the grounds of a hospital that was used to treat wounded Soviet soldiers in 1945. An unknown number of them died and were buried here and later reburied at the memorial in Treptower Park.
Address: Herzbergstraße 79, 10365 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Kaulsdorf

This memorial was erected in 1946. An unknown number of soldiers from the Red Army were buried here and later reburied at the memorial in Treptower Park in 1947 and 1948.
Address: Brodauer Straße corner of Waplitzer Straße, 12621 Berlin

The Soviet war memorial in Alt-Hohenschönhausen

Soviet War Memorial in Alt-Hohenschönhausen

This memorial dates back to 1947, but was renovated in 1975. The original obelisk is now a wall with a relief. The number of soldiers buried here is unclear, but the graves were later moved to Schönholzer Heide.
Address: Küstriner Straße 11-14, 13055 Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Staaken

The monument at this memorial was initially for the Prussian kingdom. The communists cut it down and turned it upside down. The exact creation date and number of burials are unclear. The dead were later reburied in the Soviet cemetery and memorial at Dallgow-Döberitz.
Address: Hauptstraße / Nennhauser Damm, 13591 Berlin

Soviet War Memorials around Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Baruth/Mark

This memorial was built between 1946 and 1947 and consists of mass graves for approximately 1,200 soldiers from the Red Army. Since the 1990s, around 100 Soviet soldiers, found decades later, have been buried here. The entrance is adorned with two Soviet T34 tanks, and the red star on top of the obelisk was once illuminated.
Address: Bundesstraße 96, 15837 Baruth/Mark

Soviet War Memorial at Bassinplatz

This memorial stands in a cemetery for fallen Soviet soldiers in Potsdam. The cemetery was established in 1945, but its current layout dates from 1949. 680 soldiers are buried here in 291 individual graves and 18 mass graves.
Address: Bassinplatz, 14467 Potsdam

Soviet War Memorial in Dallgow-Döberitz

This is a cemetery from 1950 for Soviet soldiers who fell on their way to the Battle of Berlin. The cemetery also has a war memorial, a stele with a relief of Lenin on one side and a red star on top. 628 soldiers are buried here.
Address: Waldrandstraße an der B5, 14624 Dallgow-Döberitz

Soviet War Memorial in Glasow

This memorial was built in 1946 for 460 fallen Soviet soldiers and officers. A large number of the dead were reburied from abandoned graves in Mahlow, Groß Kienitz, Mittenwalde, Rangsdorf, Groß-Machnow, and Kleinbeeren.
Address: Selchower Weg, 15831 Blankenfelde-Mahlow

Soviet War Memorial in Miersdorf

This memorial was established in 1947 with 550 graves of Soviet soldiers, including 110 from Niederlehme who was reburied here in 1974. The monument is mainly a brick wall with the names of soldiers known by name. A large number of civilians and French prisoners of war and forced laborers are also buried here.
Address: Dorfstraße 24, 15738 Zeuthen

Soviet War Memorial in Bernau bei Berlin

This memorial consists of both a six-meter-high obelisk and a stele. The memorial stands on the Soviet war cemetery, which was established in 1947. 425 soldiers are buried here. The most recent burials are from the 1970s and 1980s.
Address: Mühlenstraße, 16321 Bernau bei Berlin

Soviet War Memorial in Blankenfelde

This memorial is located in the forest cemetery. 373 soldiers and officers from the Red Army who fell in battle are buried in a mass grave at the monument.
Address: Berliner Damm 2, 15827 Blankenfelde-Mahlow

Soviet War Memorial in Hennigsdorf

This memorial stands in Rathenau Park and is part of a Soviet cemetery established in 1947. Just over 300 soldiers are buried here, of whom around 120 are buried anonymously. Not all of these soldiers died in combat. Some of them succumbed to their injuries later.
Address: Am Rathenaupark, 16761 Hennigsdorf

Soviet War Memorial in Nauen

This memorial is located in the Soviet cemetery in Nauen and honors both fallen soldiers and forced laborers from other countries. Originally, 34 Soviet prisoners of war were buried here, but between 2000 and 2002, 255 soldiers were moved here from graves on Berliner Straße and a new obelisk was erected.
Address: Parkstraße 30, 14641 Nauen

Soviet War Memorial in Groß Köris

This is a memorial to 278 Soviet soldiers who fell during the Battle of Halbe and are buried here. There is not much public information about the monument, so if you know anything, please share it by email.
Address: Berliner Straße, 15746 Groß Körisernauer Straße 124, 16515 Oranienburg

Soviet War Memorial in Brandenburg an der Havel

This memorial dates from 1945. In October 1945, 269 Soviet soldiers were buried here in individual and mass graves. The large obelisk was inaugurated in the same year and also features four bronze sculptures depicting an infantary soldier, an artillery soldier, a pilot, and a tank commander.
Address: Wollenweberstraße/Steinstraße, 14770 Brandenburg an der Havel

Soviet War Memorial in Oranienburg

Soviet war memorial in Oranienburg.

This is a burial site for 226 Soviets who died during the war. 11 were soldiers, and the rest were civilians. They were initially buried around Oranienburg and Berlin before being reinterred here. The central feature of the memorial is a tall obelisk. In one corner, there is a smaller obelisk and two steles, which were moved from the memorial gro

Soviet War Memorial in Teltow

This memorial is located in Teltow Cemetery. 200 fallen soldiers and Soviet forced laborers are buried here. If you know anything more, please send it by email.
Address: Weinbergsweg, 14513 Teltow

Soviet War Memorial in Blumberg

This is a small memorial, but still featuring a typical Soviet obelisk. 167 soldiers are buried here, and rumor has it that some of the soldiers did not die in battle, but were victims of the “conquest” of the Blumberg estate’s distillery.
Address: Chausseedreieck 14, 16356 Ahrensfelde

Soviet War Memorial in Ruhlsdorf

This memorial is located in Ruhlsdorf Cemetery. Here rests 112 fallen soldiers and officers from the Red Army. It is unclear when the monument was erected, but it was renovated in 2009.
Address: Samatenweg, 14513 Teltow

Soviet War Memorial in Kleinmachnow

This memorial was erected in 1946 for 104 soldiers who fell between April 22 and May 2, 1945. 41 of them could only be identified many decades later. In 2012, their names were engraved on a plaque on the memorial.
Address: Bannwald, Hohe Kiefer, 14532 Kleinmachnow

Soviet War Memorial in Wildau

This memorial is the burial site of 96 Soviet soldiers, 61 of whom were prisoners of war. There is not much public information about this memorial, so if you know more, please let us know.
Address: Albert-Lemaire-Platz, 15745 Wildau

Soviet War Memorial in Zossen

This memorial commemorates 75 fallen soldiers and officers who are buried here. It is unclear when the monument was erected, so if you know anything about it, please share it by email.
Address: Baruther Straße 11, 15806 Zossen

Soviet War Memorial in Stolpe Süd

This is a very small memorial. 12 soldiers are buried here, but a well-known obelisk with a star on top adorn the memorial. There is not much public documentation about the site, so if you know anything more, please send it by email.
Address: Corner of Eichhörnschenweg and Drosselweg, 16761 Hennigsdorf

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