Slavín

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The Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague is also known as Slavín

Slavín in Bratislava is a monumental memorial and cemetery of Soviet Army soldiers who fell during World War II when liberating the city of Bratislava in April 1945 from Nazi 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 cemetery and opened on April 3 1960 on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of the city. In 1961 it was declared a National Cultural Monument. Its designer was Ján Svetlík.

The site consists of:

• A solemn staircase
• A cemetery 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.