The tomb was opened on 6 November 1957, on the eve of the
ruby jubilee of the
October Revolution. On 8 May 1967, it was dedicated to the memory of all the unknown Ukrainian soldiers who gave their lives in the Liberation of Ukraine. International dignitaries such as U.S. President
Richard Nixon, Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev, Lithuanian Prime Minister
Algirdas Butkevičius, Russian President
Vladimir Putin, and Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan have visited and laid wreaths at the tomb. It is official protocol by the State Protocol Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for dignitaries on
state visits to lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The British government has annually held
Remembrance Day services at the tomb. Following
Ukrainian decommunization laws came into effect in 2015, in 2025 the memorial was fixed to display 1939 as the true start of WW2 instead of the original 1941 design. ==Gallery==