Directly on the Straße des 17. Juni and in the immediate vicinity of the Brandenburg Gate, the Soviet War Memorial Tiergarten commemorates the Soviet soldiers who died during the Second World War.
Tourists look at a T-34/76 tank, which was used in the Battle of Berlin during World War II, in front of the Soviet Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten park.
Numerous people visit the Soviet Memorial on the Straße des 17. Juni on May 08, 2015, and lay flowers on the occasion of the end of the Second World War in Europe on May 08, 1945.