This rather extraordinary, artificial 70-metre mound out in the direction of Minsk-2 airport was constructed in 1969 at the point where four Red Army divisions met on their drive towards Berlin in 1944. Made from soil taken from thousands of Belarusian towns and villages affected by the German occupation, at the top of a 240-step walk on top of the mound are three huge bayonets rimmed by an elaborate mosaic depicting the horrors of war in both words and pictures. A popular place of pilgrimage as well as one of the places local newlyweds come to have their photograph taken.
