Military Cemetery
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Military cemetery in Grodno was organized in 1888. It found the final resting place of soldiers of different nationalities and different armies. This land is forever reconciled them after death.

At the cemetery there Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union. Modest red ceramic plaques with the names and heroic gilded star, and next to each memorial - on a slender white birch. Around the manicured green lawn and blue spruce. That's all the glory to the heroes.

Tie a square concrete mass grave. On each side - the white marble slabs with the names of the soldiers and officers who died during the Great Patriotic War. Names of a few dozen.

Next - the graves of Polish soldiers. There were buried in the war years 1918-1939. Careful green field with stone Catholic crosses in a military neat and modest. Strange looks this field of death against a background of peaceful homes.

Cross, and under it - the land of Katyn. The black marble slab with dozens of names. There are always fresh flowers and wreaths.

The oldest burial ground - a chapel over the grave of Major-General of the Russian Army, Marshal of the Nobility of Grodno district and honorable magistrate Grodno District Alexander Alexandrovich Russau.

Buried here and the Red Army who participated in the battles for Grodno in September 1939.

In this cemetery are buried also the German soldiers who died on the battlefields of the First and Second World Wars.

Behind the cemetery cared for as municipal services, and volunteers from local and foreign youth patriotic clubs. On the graves of soldiers coming guys from Poland and Germany.

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