Maarjamäe War Memorial stands on the outskirts of the capital of Estonia, along the road from the Pirita beach. Originally, the site was a military cemetery built by the German army in 1941, when the army defended the baltic war front. After the war, all German gravestones were removed. In 1960, the Soviet regime decided to turn the site  into a memorial to russian soldiers. That same year, it erected a large obelisk in memory of russian soldiers killed in 1918. The rest of the complex, with its monumental avenue of entry, the amphitheater and the figures of iron and concrete were built in 1975 as a monument to soviet soldiers killed during World War II.

At the present time, the historical site now consists of a German military cemetery and the Soviet memorial. The reconstruction of the German cemetery was opened in 1998. The cemetery is presided by a large stone cross of 5.5 meters. In alphabetical order are the names of 2,156 dead soldiers with their date of birth and death, and all units of the Wehrmacht in which soldiers fought. The individual stones have not been able to rebuild, but now the cemetery is marked by 25 groups of three crosses.

The historic area is covered with grass and surrounded by replanted trees that distort the integrity of the cemetery. The cemetery visit is highly recommended to capture the scope of the German army offensive in the territory of the Soviet Union, and admire one of the monuments of the communist past still exist in Estonia.