Defence Force Cemetery

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The Defence Forces Cemetery, located in Tallinn in the area between Juurdeveo Street and the Tallinn City Centre Cemetery, is the burial place of members of the armed forces who have fallen in Estonia and where up to 5,000 members of armed forces have been buried during 120 years.In 2007 the monument to liberators of Tallinn, in popular language the Bronze Soldier, was moved from the green area in Tonismae, central Tallinn, to the Defence Forces Cemetery. The memorial structure to those fallen in the Estonian War of Independence established in 1928 and a statue in commemoration of the victims of Manniku explosion are also located here.