Soviet Memorial in the Soldiers' Cemetery Amras

Soviet architects designed the war grave sites of their relatives in Austria in a Stalinist style with specific requirements: square or rectangular layout with a central "hero's square," a victory obelisk or another massive monument, a Soviet star and an inscriptions with patriotic and emotive content. The Soviet part of the cemetery in Innsbruck is surrounded by a hedge and is located in the Soldatenfriedhof Amras, the largest war grave site in Tyrol. In the center, a round obelisk made of cast stone rises above a two-step cubic granite base, crowned by a five-pointed Soviet star. Ten radially arranged communal graves made of artificial stone blocks bear the names of the Soviet citizens buried here in Russian. The gravestone for Iwan Emanatschenko, Juri Filipowitsch, Cyrill Schmutz and Petro Wetraw, all executed in the Reichenau camp, stands in immediate proximity to the Soviet cemetery section.