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

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 Boroughs of Berlin, borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick. The borough was formerly part of East Berlin. Overview Among ...

, south of central

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History

It was the location of the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin in 1896. It is a popular place for recreation of Berliners and a tourist attraction. On 14 July 1987 it was used by British band

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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,

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. 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

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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

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Website der Bürgerinitiative Treptower Park
* Rollercoaster Database

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History

Soviet war memorial

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