SLAVÍN MEMORIAL (SLAVÍN)

This memorial in honour of the Soviet Army was built on a hill north of the city in 1957-1960. Above all, it is a cemetery where more than 6,845 Soviet soldiers of the Red Army who fell during the Second World War are buried. On a 28-metre-high pylon stands a bronze statue of a Soviet soldier. It is a place where every foreign delegation had to go on their visit to socialist Czechoslovakia. It is still unofficially visited by foreign statesmen from the former Soviet Union.