The Mound of Brotherhood
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Completed: 1956
Architects: Evgeni Zidarov, Mikhail Milkov (architects), Yordan Krâchmarov, Anetta Atanasova-Milkova, Vladimir Tsvetkov (sculptors), A. Stamenov and L. Petrov (artists)
Alternative name: Fraternal Mound
Genre: War memorial, Socialist monument, former Eastern Bloc
The monument commemorates partisans who lost their lives fighting in Bulgarian campaigns during World War II. It is located in Borisova Garden (Freedom Park during the country’s socialist period (1944-1989)), close to the mortal remains of seventeen notable resistance fighters and members of the Bulgarian Communist Party who were buried there in 1944.
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