Soviet War Cemetery Kaišiadorys

On the outskirts of the city at the edge of the Girele forest is a Soviet cemetery with fallen soldiers from the Second World War. The cemetery has been here since 1972, before that it was located at Kaisiadorys station.
The current cemetery lies within a low wall. From the entrance there is a path to the monument with the inscription in Russian and Lithuanian "to those who fell in the 1941-1945 war, remember forever". In front of the monument is a plaque for 367 unknown casualties.

There are no individual graves, but on both sides of the path are stones with a plaque with the names, in Russian, of 16 fallen soldiers. From the entrance to the monument are 27 of these stones, each with a plaque with 16 names. At the end of a side path there are 10 more stones, 6 with Russian names, 1 with Lithuanian names, 1 for unknown soldiers and two with different plates: 1 with the portrait of the Georgian soldier Giorgi Chartonishvili 1921-1944, made or commissioned from his brother and a clearly older stone for Dmitrijus Stepanovicius Otiakovskis, who fell as a hero to the fatherland in July 1944.

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