Practically in every city of the former USSR there isVictory Square is a place of sorrow and bright memory of soldiers who died in the hard years of the Second World War. Every year on May 9, solemn events are held here in honor of people who fought for the freedom of the Soviet people.
Victory Square in Minsk is located onIndependence Avenue. In former times it was called Round. And only in 1954 (with the erection of the monument) received a new symbolic name, which is used to this day. Victory Square is one of the most beautiful places in Minsk, built according to a single architectural plan. A thirty-meter obelisk, bendable on both sides by the roadway and located near two picturesque squares, was erected in July 1954. Its top is decorated with the Order of Victory. The well-known Belarusian architect G. Zaborsky, believing in the firm spirit of the Soviet people, began work on the monument in the distant 1942. At the base of the monument on the pedestal is a sword, adorned with a laurel branch. On the four sides of the obelisk there are cast reliefs from bronze - works by eminent sculptors A. Bembel, S. Selikhanov, Z. Azgur and A. Glebov. Architects did not forget about the national flavor - the granite stele is decorated with "belts" with Belarusian ornaments.
In connection with the construction of the underground (in 1984), Victory Square (Minsk) was re-planned.
Since 1984, there have been installed stonepedestals inside which are capsules with the land of all Soviet hero cities: Volgograd, Moscow, Odessa, Leningrad, Kiev, Kerch, Sevastopol, Tula, Novorossiysk, Brest, Murmansk and Smolensk.
Annually in honor of the liberators in the capitalRussia holds the Victory Parade on Red Square. In the distant 1945, this solemn event was hosted by the hero of the Great Patriotic War, the famous marshal - Georgy Zhukov. The parade was held under the command of K. Rokossovsky in the presence of Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov, Kalinin and other prominent political figures of the time. Today, the Victory Parade is a sign of remembrance and of great gratitude to all the soldiers who defended the freedom of our country.