This urban infrastructure of the northern capital does not belong to the category of well-known.Even not all indigenous Petrograders can tell the visitor, as the shortest way to find what is indicated on the detailed maps of the city as "Kinoveevskoe cemetery of St. Petersburg."However, the necropolis with the name of the city on the Neva is and he deserves no less attention than any other.
From St. Petersburg's historical
His name Kinoveevskoe cemetery received the title of the monastery, which was located once near Malaya Okhta.The very place-name of Greek origin and means something like "common life."That was the order in the monastery on the Okhta, all of its residents on admission to the monastery passed to her all his possessions and lived a single community.Abode, otherwise referred to as "kinoveya", is the country branch of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.The monastery is long gone, but Kinoveevskoe cemetery once was with it, it exists to this day.The same name was wearing and the prospectus, which was held not far from the cemetery.In the middle of the twentieth century it was renamed and incorporated into the other line.
can assume that in the days when Saint Petersburg was the capital of the Russian Empire, it was quite easy to answer the question: "Kinoveevskoe Cemetery ... How to reach it?"Search churchyard should, of course, on Kinoveevskom Avenue.Any change in the authorities of historical place names often leads to difficulties in orienting streets of the city.
From the history of the graveyard
date of the founding of the necropolis is considered to be 1848, when the next of kin existed on the territory of the Church of All Saints began to bury the local monks.Throughout most of the nineteenth century, the cemetery was considered Kinoveevskoe countryside and burial on it produced relatively few.Remarkable social composition of those who happened to be buried on it.For the most part these are people malosostoyatelnye and no famous.Mainly - with peasants Ohtinskom shores.Among the most prestigious and aristocratic necropolis attributed this was no way.
summer of 1862 the cemetery was laid out a five-domed Holy Trinity Cathedral.Subsequently, in the vicinity of a steel produced burial of persons of the merchant class.At the beginning of the era of Soviet history ceased to exist Kinoveya, gave the name of the graveyard.In 1942 the cemetery were mass graves, which were buried soldiers who died in hospitals in the defense of Leningrad, and ordinary citizens of the besieged city, who died from starvation, from shelling and bombing.
Kinoveevskoe Cemetery today
modern territory based in the middle of the last century of the necropolis is not much more than sixteen hectares.Kinoveevskoe cemetery is located between two lively city highways - Far East Avenue and the waterfront October.It is bordered to the streets Mga, Samoilova and the river Volkovka.Architectural background of the historic churchyard is a modern industrial buildings.From the nineteenth century buildings have survived only a few buildings, they are located by the waterfront.
in the administrative sense Kinoveevskoe cemetery is a structural unit of St. Petersburg State breech Institution "Specialized Service of St. Petersburg for the funeral business."The cemetery is still active.But here are manufactured mainly related disposal and burial urns with ashes in the grave or in the wall of the columbarium.Provision of free space in the cemetery is almost exhausted, and the prospects for its expansion are not available.
cemetery
Reconstruction Work on the reconstruction of economic infrastructure redevelopment and expansion of the cemetery were carried out several times during its history.In 1946, a memorial was set on the site of the mass graves of war.It is designed as a black column-obelisk.In 1964, at the fifth site Kinoveevskogo cemetery has been issued so-called "Communist platform" where are buried the old Bolsheviks and party functionaries of the Soviet era.
most large-scale reconstruction of the necropolis was made in the late eighties of the twentieth century.On the territory there were modern administrative and outbuildings were applied hard coating on all the major malls, works on landscaping and installed lighting design.Not far from the central alley was installed memorial zenith calculation, who died in 1943 in repelling flying German aircraft in Finland Railway Bridge.Upon completion of the reconstruction of the cemetery has become Kinoveevskoe view corresponding architectural standards required for this kind of urban infrastructure.Appearance necropolis mainly determined burial mid-twentieth century.
Mode
Kinoveevskoe cemetery, the address of which is indicated in the manual as the October embankment, 16, building 3, is open for the reception of visitors.You can visit it from 9 to 17 pm from October to April, and from 9 to 18 hours from May to September (excluding weekends).Visitors access to the territory is closed only in the New Year celebration on January.Administration Phone - (812) 587 94 14. Postal address: Russia, St. Petersburg, 193091, October embankment, 16, building 3.
Kinoveevskoe Cemetery: how to get
As a rule, does not represent a great difficulty to get to any objectlocated within the city limits and scope of public transport.The problem here is that the drive to the cemetery Kinoveevskogo direct rather difficult.The area has three metro stations - "Elizarovskaya", "Novocherkassk" and "Prospect Bolsheviks".But they are far removed from the cemetery.Therefore, when you exit the subway is best to use the services of taxi.
