Mound of Immortality

The Mound of Immortality in the Readovsky Park of Smolensk was opened on September 25, 1970, according to the design of architect Daniil Kovalenko. The monument has the shape of a truncated five-sided pyramid, and at its top there is an 11-meter stele in the form of an open book with the dates 1941–1945. At the foot of the mound, constructed from the soil of mass graves from the Smolensk region, the Eternal Flame burns, and the bas-relief was created according to the design of sculptor V. Ya. Menshov.