Victory Monument, Minsk, War memorial obelisk in Victory Square, Minsk, Belarus.

The Victory Monument is a 38-metre grey granite obelisk on Victory Square, where avenues radiate toward it. Its shaft is banded with narrow and wide strips recalling Belarusian ornament, and it is crowned by a bronze and smalt image of the Order of Victory. Four bronze high reliefs on the pedestal show "9 May 1945", "Glory to the Fallen Heroes", "The Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War" and "Partisans of Belarus".

The monument was built in 1954 to honor Soviet Army soldiers and Belarusian partisans who fought in World War II. An eternal flame was lit at its base in 1961.

Every 9 May, Victory Day, Belarusian officials, veterans and diplomatic delegations lay wreaths at the obelisk; wreaths are also laid on Independence Day. Since 3 July 1984 a Post No. 1 honour guard has been kept by some 900 Minsk school pupils, coordinated by the Minsk State Palace of Children and Youth.

The monument stands at the crossing of Independence Avenue and Zakharov Street, closing the vista of the avenues that converge on Victory Square. Since the square was rebuilt in 1984 for the metro, it has two levels, and an underground ring gallery around the monument's base connects directly to the Ploshchad Pobedy station of the Minsk metro. Granite stairs lead from the memorial hall back up to the square.

Since 1984 the monument's underground base has been ringed by a gallery linked to the Ploshchad Pobedy metro station. It leads into a round memorial hall with a wreath of illuminated art glass at its centre and bronze plaques naming 566 natives of the Byelorussian SSR and other Soviet republics awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for liberating Belarus.