MONUMENT TO SOVIET SOLDIER RETURNS TO BERLIN AFTER RESTORATION

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BERLIN, May 2 (RIA Novosti's Alexander Polotsky) - The twelve-meter figure of the Soviet solider returned to Berlin on Saturday after it was restored by a German specialized firm on the island of Rugen (Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania).

A specially equipped cargo ship delivered the monument through channels to the capital of Germany.

The German side spent 1.5 million euros on the major repair of the 40-ton figure of the Soviet solider.

The world's renowned monument will begin to be assembled on the territory of the Soviet war memorial in Treptow Park on Monday, May 3.

As RIA Novosti has learnt, all assembly work is expected to be over until May 7. On this day a festive opening of the renewed monument in Treptow Park will take place and wreathes will be traditionally laid at the monument in connection with Victory Day.

The war memorial in Treptow Park is an impressive monument to Soviet soldiers who died in 1945 during the seizure of the capital of nazi Germany. "We pay tribute to their memory and continue to regard the memorial as a Soviet memorial because precisely the USSR liberated Berlin. We do everything possible to take worthy care of the three largest Soviet war memorials in our city - in Treptow Park, in Tiergarten, and Schoenholzer Heide," head of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development Hans Stimmann said.

Berlin Senate spokeswoman Petra Roland explained that under the existing state treaties between the USSR and the Federative Republic of Germany concluded in 1990 the Federative Republic of Germany undertook to take care of and restore, if necessary, the monuments and other Soviet soldier memorials on the territory of Germany. According to her, 1.5 million euros were allocated for the restoration of the 40-ton figure of the Soviet soldier in Treptow Park alone. On the whole, about 6.5 million euros have been spent since 1999 on efforts to carry out major repairs and take care of Soviet war memorials in Berlin. This work will be continued in subsequent years as well.

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