Slavín
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Slavín in Bratislava is a monumental memorial and cementary of Soviet Army soldiers who fell during WWII when liberating the town of Bratislava in April 1945 from Fascist German troops. It is situated on a hill close to the center of Bratislava.
It was constructed between 1957 and 1960 on the place of a field cementary and opened on April 3 1960 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of the town. In 1961 it was declared a National Cultural Monument. Its designer was Ján Svetlík.
The site consists of:
- A solemn staircase
- A cementary with graves (6 mass graves, 278 individual graves) of 6845 Soviet soldiers who fell when liberating Bratislava
- The central solemn hall with various statues, inscriptions, and a symbolic sarcophagus made of white marble. It also features a 39.5 m high tower (pylon) with a statue of a Soviet soldier on its top, and on the outside walls inscriptions of dates of liberation of various places in Slovakia in 1944-1945.
