All cities of our country and the world are different from each other. Different buildings, enterprises, people ... But there are places that are found in any more or less large settlement. These are graveyards. It just so happened that a person is mortal, and he needs a last refuge. Tours are not allowed here. People come to cemeteries to talk with departed loved ones, and informal youth sometimes visit abandoned graves, trying to penetrate the secrets of the other world.
In this article, we will talk about several of the largest Russian graveyards, which, by a strange coincidence, have the same name "Northern Cemetery".
On the pages of the Guinness Book of Records
The first of them is the Northern cemetery of Rostov-on-Don. Despite the fact that it was founded not so long ago (in 1972), it is one of the largest not only in Russia but also in Europe, which is why it was included in the “Book of Records”. On an area of 350 hectares there are more than 355 thousand burials.
Relatives of the deceased can traditionally bury them or take advantage of the help of a crematorium and pay tribute to their loved ones in the Holy Protection Church chapel located on the territory of the churchyard. Once every half an hour a bus runs for those who come by public transport to the Northern Cemetery. Monuments, graves and tombstones of prestigious quarters are under the lenses of cameras and are constantly guarded, because everyone knows that our country is “rich” in vandals. And right behind the fence is another cemetery, however, illegal. Here, loving owners bury their pets.
Northern Perm cemetery
Another of the largest graveyards in Russia. And also opened not so long ago - in 1982. The scheme of the Northern cemetery clearly shows that a huge territory of 243 hectares is divided into quarters. They can also be combined by type, depending on who is buried there. There are Jewish, gypsy, Muslim, military, children's quarters, the area of those killed in execution, honorary citizens. Separately, areas were also allocated for the burial of unclaimed and unknown. 28 of the 88 dead during the 2008 air crash were buried here. Here, a year after it, on September 14, 2009, a memorial to the victims was opened. And soon after that, another tragedy occurred - a fire in the Lame Horse nightclub. Many of those who never came home that night are also buried here.
Necropolis of the Northern CapitalAnother Northern cemetery. His story is much longer than the two already mentioned. It began in 1875. True, then the cemetery was called Assumption, like a small wooden church. Located in one of the northern suburbs of St. Petersburg (the village of Pargolovo), it was originally intended for wealthy citizens. However, the calculations of the city authorities did not materialize. Basically, not wealthy people found the last refuge here. A little later, military lower ranks were buried here. And in 1900, the church of Alexander Nevsky was built, where one could hear from time to time the amazing singing of a military choir. The revolution in Russia has changed a lot, it did not spare the Northern Cemetery either. Both churches were destroyed, crypts were looted, graves ravaged. The time of World War II became the time of mass graves in this necropolis. Defenders of the besieged Leningrad rest in mass graves .
Now the cemetery is operational, in 2008 the stone church of the Assumption of the Virgin was built instead of the first one, destroyed. And among the many modern graves, it is almost impossible to find ancient burials.