Description of the attraction
The military cemetery in Grodno was organized in 1888. Soldiers of different nationalities and different armies found their last refuge here. This land reconciled them forever after death.
There is an Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union in the cemetery. Modest red ceramic tablets with gilded names and a heroic star, and next to each memorial there is a slender white birch tree. Around a well-groomed green lawn and blue spruces. That's all the glory to the heroes.
Strict concrete square of a mass grave. On the sides there are white marble slabs with the names of soldiers and officers who died during the Great Patriotic War. There are several dozen names.
Nearby is the burial place of Polish soldiers. The military was buried here in 1918-1939. A neat green field with stone Catholic crosses, military tidy and modest. This field of death looks strange against the background of peaceful residential buildings.
Cross, and under it - the earth from Katyn. Black marble slab with dozens of names. There are always wreaths and fresh flowers.
The oldest burial place is a chapel over the grave of the Major General of the Russian Army, the leader of the nobility of the Grodno district and the honorary magistrate of the Grodno district, Alexander Alexandrovich Russau.
The Red Army soldiers who participated in the battles for Grodno in September 1939 are also buried here.
In this cemetery are also buried German soldiers who died on the battlefields in the First and Second World Wars.
The cemetery is maintained by both municipal services and volunteers from local and foreign youth patriotic clubs. Children from Poland and Germany come to the graves of the soldiers.
