Treptower Park (, with a silent ''w'') is a park alongside the river

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Alt-Treptow Alt-Treptow (, literally ''Old Treptow'') is a German locality in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick in Berlin. Known also as Treptow it was, until 2001, the main and the eponymous locality of the former Treptow borough. History The locality, first ...

, in the district of

Treptow-Köpenick Treptow-Köpenick () is the ninth borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick. Overview Among Berlin's boroughs it is the largest by area with the lowest po ...

, south of central

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History

Berlin, Treptow, Gewerbeausstellung 1896, Übersicht

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Soviet war memorial

Its prominent feature is the Soviet War Memorial (sometimes translated as the "Soviet Cenotaph"), built to the design of the

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architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the

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in April–May 1945. It was opened four years after the war ended, on May 8,

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

. File:Panorama of the Russian War Memorial at Treptow.jpg, Panoramic view of the Memorial File:Relief illustration as part of Soviet War Memorial, Treptower Park.jpg, Illustration made in

relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

as part of Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park File:Treptower Park Pedestal.JPG, A view into the pedestal of the memorial File:Statue of Soviet soldier in Treptower Park, Berlin, Germany.jpg, Statue of kneeling Soviet soldier at the memorial

References

External links

*
Website der Bürgerinitiative Treptower Park
* Rollercoaster Database

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History

Soviet war memorial

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