Khovanskoye Cemetery

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View of part of the cemetery

The Khovanskoye Cemetery ( Russian Хованское кладбище ) in the Sossenskoye settlement, Moscow's Novomoskowski district on the Moscow motorway ring (around the 21st kilometer stone) is the largest cemetery in Europe .

The cemetery has an area of ​​more than 197 hectares . It is divided into three sections:

  • the 1972 opened Khovanskoe Central Cemetery with 87.72 hectares
  • the north cemetery opened in 1978 with an area of ​​60 hectares
  • and the western part, which was dedicated as a cemetery in 1992 with another 50.12 hectares.

In the cemetery there is a cemetery chapel of the Russian Orthodox Church , which was also visited by the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia , Alexius II . In 1988 a crematorium was built near the cemetery .

On May 14, 2016, three Tajik migrant workers died in the cemetery during a fight between hundreds of young prisoners , mainly from the North Caucasus , and a group of mostly Tajik migrants who were employed as cemetery workers. According to Russian prosecutors, this fight came about as a result of efforts by former Moscow police officer Nikita Moschenko and Yuri Khabuyev from the Moscow City Funeral Service to take control of the nursery and grave maintenance (with a monthly turnover of 20 million rubles).

Celebrities buried

Web links

Commons : Khovanskoye Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Хованское кладбище (Николо Хованское кладбище) | Кладбища Москвы закрытые ... | Документация | Профсоюз работников ритуальных услуг ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prof-ritual.ru
  2. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Хованское кладбище | ГУП РИТУАЛ@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mosritual.ru
  3. ↑ https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2016/05/14/68600-171-chto-zdes-proizoshlo-8212-eto-voyna-187
  4. ↑ a b https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-luhansk-makaryev-donbas-peoples-army-russia-warrant/28474845.html
    https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-cemetery- brawl-deaths / 27734745.html
  5. ↑ Elena Sheremetova: Ruslana Korshunova buried at Khovanskoye Cemetery in Moscow (Russian) , Komsomolskaya Pravda. July 7, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008. 

Coordinates: 55 ° 36 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 37 ° 26 ′ 51.5 ″  E