The Soviet Cemetery

THE SOVIET CEMETERY The Soviet army occupied Buzău on 28th August 1944 and, since the German soldiers were barricaded in the Communal Palace, a cannon was fired, part of the building burning together with the archive. This was also the moment when the important book collection donated to the city library by the great politician from Buzău, Alexandru Marghiloman burned. The establishment, in the extension of the Heroes' Cemetery of Buzău, in its western part, of a cemetery for Soviet soldiers who fell during the Second World War, only strengthened a Christian, forgiving state of mind of Buzău city's citizens. Here, 392 Soviet soldiers are buried in individual or common graves, fallen in the battles with the German soldiers who were retreating towards Transylvania, after 23rd August 1944, within the radius of Buzău county. In the cemetery we find 10 large grave markers for common graves and 16 small grave markers for individual graves. The funerary monument, a composite concrete obelisk, in the shape of a pyramid trunk, 6.20 m high, has a red metal five-pointed star at the top, and on each side, there is a red star. On the obelisk there is an inscription in Russian and Romanian, written on three sides: "Eternal glory to the soldiers of the Soviet army who gave their lives in the fight for the liberation of mankind from fascist slavery".