• Built in 1954 to honor the Soviet soldiers who died in Bulgarian efforts during World War II, the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia has become a popular site...
  • The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, Bulgaria, stands in Prince’s Garden and was erected in 1954 to honor the Soviet Red Army.
  • Bulgaria, Sofia, Monument to the Soviet Army, communist-era sculptural group. Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley.
  • Without any respect for its own history, which owes a lot, if not everything, to Russia first and then to the Soviet Union (as this monument recalled).
  • The striking Monument to the Soviet Army stands in the centre of Sofia, presenting the image of a Red Army soldier leading a worker, peasant woman and child...
  • Monument to the Soviet Army. Location: Sofia, Bulgaria. Completed: 1954. Architects: Danko Mitov (lead architect) and Ivan Funev (lead sculptor) plus collective.
  • The Soviet Army monument in central Sofia was daubed with paint in the early hours of September 9 2018, the seventy-fourth anniversary of the invasion of...
  • A must-see landmark, the Monument to the Soviet Army is a nostalgic reminder of socialist times.
  • Possibly the largest existent sculptural work of Socialist Realism in Sofia, and quite possibly the whole country, is the Monument to the Soviet Army which...