Fascism victims monument in Donetsk, Memorial monument in Donetsk, Ukraine.

The Monument to the Victims of Fascism in Donetsk stands atop a hill at the end of a fifty-step staircase on Lenin Avenue, beside the Palace of Culture of Metallurgists. It consists of six twelve-metre pylons joined by a wreath welded from stamped aluminium sheets. The pylons were first clad in light-blue glass panels, later replaced by red granite and then galvanised metal.

During the German occupation of Donetsk, a camp for Soviet prisoners of war held over 25,000 people on the grounds of the Metallurgists' Palace of Culture; the dead were buried in the adjacent park. In 1956 residents raised a mound over the graves, and in 1965, for the 20th anniversary of the victory over Germany, the monument by sculptor Leonid Brin and architect Yuri Mozchil was unveiled on the mound.

The memorial serves as a gathering place for commemorative ceremonies and educational programs about the impacts of World War II. Visitors come here regularly to remember those who died and to keep their stories alive.

The monument stands on a hilltop reached by a staircase of fifty steps, on Leninsky Avenue beside the Palace of Metallurgists' Culture in the Leninsky district. The eternal flame between the pylons is lit only on holidays, so it is usually unlit on ordinary days.

The monument's pylons have been re-clad three times: light-blue glass panels, then red granite in the late 1970s, then galvanized steel, which rusted within years. The 1970 film-concert "Solar Ballad" featuring Tamara Miansarova was shot here.