title: Mound of Immortality
text: # Mound of Immortality
  
  Mound of Immortality (Russian: Курган Бессмертия, Kurgan Bessmertiya) is the name of several memorials/monuments in the former Soviet Union that commemorate the Soviet soldiers and ordinary citizens who fought and perished during the German–Soviet War. They exist in the following locations:
  
  * Polotsk, Belarus
  * Orsha, Belarus
  * Bryansk, Russia
  * Smolensk, Russia
  * Yefremov, Tula Oblast, Russia
  
  In addition there is a Mound of Immortality in honor of Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian poet Adam Mickiewicz in Novogrudok, Belarus.
  
  