all cities of our country and the world are different from each other.Different buildings, businesses, people ... But there are places that are found in any more or less large settlement.This cemetery.It so happens that man is mortal, and he needs a last refuge.This does not lead tours.At the cemetery come to talk with departed loved ones, but sometimes attends informal youth abandoned graves, trying to penetrate the secrets of the underworld.
In this article we will talk about a few of the largest graveyards of Russia, which by a strange coincidence have the same name "Northern Cemetery."
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The first of these - Northern cemetery in Rostov-on-Don.Despite the fact that it is based not so long ago (in 1972), it is one of the largest not only in Russia but also in Europe, because of what and got into the "Book of Records."Covering an area of 350 hectares has more than 355 000 dead zahoroneniy.Rodstvenniki can bury them traditionally or take the help of the crematorium, to commemorate loved ones in the Holy Protection Church, Chapel, located on the territory of the churchyard.Every half-hour bus service for those who come by public transport to the North Cemetery.Monuments, graves and tombstones prestigious neighborhoods are under the camera lens and the constant guard, because we all know that our country is "rich" by vandals.And right behind the fence there is another cemetery, though illegal.Here loving owners bury their pets.
North Cemetery Perm
One of the largest Russian graveyards.And also opened not so long ago - in 1982.Driving North Cemetery demonstrates that a huge area of 243 hectares is divided into quarters.They can also combine types, depending on who is buried there.There are Jewish, Gypsy, Muslim, military, children's quarters, killed in the area, honorable citizens.Separately, also highlighted areas for burial of unclaimed and unknown.It buried 28 of the 88 who died during the plane crash in 2008.Here, a year after her September 14, 2009, was a memorial to the victims.And soon after that, there was another tragedy - a fire in a nightclub "Lame Horse".Many of those who did not come home that night, also buried here. Necropolis northern capital
Another Northern Cemetery.His story is much longer than the two already mentioned.It began back in 1875.However, when the cemetery was called the Assumption, as well as a small wooden church.Located in one of the northern suburbs of St. Petersburg (Pargolovo village), it was originally intended for wealthy city dwellers.However, calculations of the city authorities were not justified.Basically, here are the final resting place is not wealthy people.A little later it began to bury the lower ranks of the military.And in 1900, it was built the church of Alexander Nevsky, which could be heard from time to time, striking a military choir singing.The revolution in Russia has changed a lot, and she did not spare North Cemetery.Both churches are destroyed, looted tombs, graves ruined.The Great Patriotic War was a time of mass graves in the necropolis.The mass graves are buried the defenders of the besieged Leningrada.Seychas Cemetery is an active, erected in 2008, has a stone church of the Assumption in return that first destroyed.And among the many modern tombs it is almost impossible to find ancient burial.
