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The Soviet War Memorial (London) is located in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (area surrounding the Imperial War Museum) in south-east of London. It is the only memorial in the United Kingdom that was built to commemorate all Soviet Union losses in WW II, both military and civilian. The memorial was designed by Russian sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov. The granite memorial tablet was made by British stonemason Gary Breeze. .

Background
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Allied Victory over Nazi Germany (1995), the Russian Government office inquired for help from the SCRSS (Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies) to organize services at the graves of Soviet WW II servicemen in UK.

In 1995 participants of the SCRSS Annual General Meeting passed the resolution to inquire a authorization to set up a national memorial in London to the USSR war dead.

In 1998, the London-based SCRSS then took the proposition forward and the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund was formed, with the aim of building support and raising money for the creation of a appropriate memorial to commemorate all Soviet wartime losses, both military and civilian.

"On 9 May, 1999 HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, laid the first wreath at the unveiling ceremony" , which was attended by 400 people, including representatives of nine embassies of the former USSR, and WW II veterans from Russia and Kyrgyzstan.

Stone tablet text
The text of the stone tablet in front of the monument says:

ВЕЧНАЯ ВАМ ПАМЯТЬ

THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES THE 27 MILLION SOVIET CITIZENS & SERVICE MEN & WOMEN WHO DIED FOR THE ALLIED VICTORY IN WW II

WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

In addition, the stone records, in both English and Russian, that “This Memorial was raised by public subscription in Great Britain and Russia”.

Annual Ceremonies
Well-attended regular remembrance ceremonies are held on
 * Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army)
 * Victory Day (9 May, the day on which Russia celebrates the defeat of Nazism in Europe)
 * Remembrance Sunday in November