- In 1997, a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment (which had guarded the Lenin Mausoleum) was restored at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the...
- In 1921, the United States unveiled its own Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Portugal its Túmulo do Soldado Desconhecido, and Italy its Tomba del Milite Ignoto.
- In 2009, the Presidential Decree “The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” received the status of a monument commemorating military glory of national importance.
- The idea of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier spread throughout other countries and within a few years similar tombs were erected in many countries.
- The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow is a national monument to military glory located in the Alexander Garden at the foot of the west side of the Kremlin.
- The Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers typically contain the remains of a dead soldier who is unidentified (or “known but to God” as the stone is sometimes inscribed).
- The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier serves as a symbolic grave for all war dead whose remains have not been found or identified.
- Guests on a previous tour were able to chat with Sergeant First Class Tanner Welch of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Sentinel of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
- These words are inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: "Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier, Known but to God."
- Find out more about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, from the first soldier ever interred in it to the rigorous process of guarding it.
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- Tamamlanma tarihi:8 Mayıs 1967