Cemetery of Soviet Union Red Army Martyrs is located at the north of Ang'angxi Railway Station, Qiqihar City, which was built on August 15, 1949, to commemorate and recall the former Soviet Union Red Army soldiers who gloriously died in August 1945 in China. The south-north length of the cemetery is 122m, the width is 60m, and the cemetery covers 7,320㎡ . The cemetery mainly consists of 1 Soviet Union Red Army Martyr Monument and 16 martyr graves. The cemetery is buried with totally 126 Soviet Union Red Army Martyrs.
The Soviet Union Red Army Martyr Monument is seated at the eastern part of the cemetery, it's 8m high, a statue of a Soviet Union Red Army soldier with a steel helmet on his head and a submachine gun on his back is standing on the top of the monument, holding high an ensign in a bravely forwarding position. The foundation of the monument has 5 steps of stone stairs, and there are relief sculptures of the Soviet Union Red Army in the northeast liberation battle on the surroundings of the foundation. The national emblem of Soviet Union is respectively sculpted on the eastern and western sides of the monument body, the epigraphs of The Soviet Union Red Army martyrs who died for the liberation of northeast from the oppression of the Japanese imperialists are eternally immortal! and Those Soviet Union people who sacrificed for the liberation of the northeastern people from the Japanese imperialist shackles will never be forgotten by the Chinese people! are enchased on the monument.
Some people voluntarily come to the cemetery to pay respect to the martyrs every year and to commemorate their sacrifices for the Anti-Fascist World War and for the liberation of northeastern people from the cruel oppression of the Japanese imperialists. Now the cemetery has become the base for patriotic education. It's ranked to be The Municipal Level Cultural Relic Protection Unit by Qiqihar Municipal Government in 1987. |
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