Land of Unity’ Russian and German Memorial Cemetery

Some twelve thousand soldiers are buried at the Pechenga cemetery. The German cemetery was set up in the wartime, with the graves dug by Soviet POWs. After the Nazis were driven out, Soviet tanks razed it to the ground. The cemetery was restored in the 1990s.The monument to the Austrian soldiers was unveiled on 20 August 1994, and the monument to the German soldiers, in 2000. It is now a place of mourning, also called ‘Land of Unity’ – one of the few places in Northern Europe where warring parties’ soldiers were laid to rest together, that commemorates those who fought in the Second World War and all wars. Nearly 600 Soviet soldiers and some 12 thousand Gebirgsjäger are buried at this cemetery.