Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The monument on the Grave of the Unknown soldier (architects D. I. Burdin, V. A. Klimov) was opened on may 8, 1967, installed in the Alexander garden at the Kremlin wall on Manezh square to mark the 25th anniversary of the defeat of the German fascist troops near Moscow.

The majestically strict architectural and sculptural composition is made of the most valuable rocks. On the territory of the Alexander garden, along the Kremlin wall from the Arsenal tower towards the grotto, stretches a platform with three steps of gray polished granite. The center of the memorial zone is a tombstone on the undercut, consisting of large blocks of red polished granite. Under it lies the ashes of an unknown soldier who died in the harsh winter of 1941 on the 40th kilometer of the Leningrad highway. On the slab is a symbolic sculpture in bronze: on a banner that falls in heavy folds, a Laurel branch and a soldier’s helmet. In front of the monument, in a square field lined with slabs of polished Labrador, a five-pointed star cast in bronze is fixed

Location : Moscow, Russia