Pyatnitskoye Cemetery (Kaluga)

Cemetery in Kaluga, Russia

Pyatnitskoye Сemetery


Details
Established	1780
Location	Kaluga
Country	Russia
Owned by	State
Size	23 hectares

The Pyatnitskoye Сemetery (Russian: Пятницкое кладбище) is one of the graveyards in the Russian town Kaluga. It is among the oldest and largest resting places in the city. On the territory of the cemetery is the Memorial to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

History and name

Park-necropolis Pyatnitskoye Сemetery in Kaluga was discovered relatively recently in 1780. Earlier in this place there was a large number of parish cemeteries, one can say at each of the 46 temples of Kaluga. The new cemetery was located on the earthen rampart, which ran through today's streets of Barricade and Labor, located in the northern part of the city. The cemetery is fenced with a brick fence, its total area is 23 hectares. In the distant 1785 on the territory of the cemetery towered the Peter and Paul Temple. The chapel of this church was consecrated in the name of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa [ru], hence the name of the cemetery. Years passed. The cemetery dates back several centuries, during this time a very large number of inhabitants of the city were buried on its territory. Nearby there is (and adjoins) one more cemetery Military cemetery. It buried more than four thousand people who died in the battles in the fields of the Great Patriotic War. The cemetery has preserved ancient monuments, made of marble, granite, sandstone. These monuments are of great architectural and historical value.

Location and size

Located at: Kaluga, Truda Street 1a, rectangular, is limited to: Truda Street, Truda Lane, Kirpichnaya Street and Television Street.

Notable people buried at the Pyatnitskoye Cemetery

Viktor Amanshin [ru], Hero of Socialist Labour
Lev Bogomolov [ru], murdered Russian journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kaluga Vechernyaya
Polina Vaneeva [ru], Soviet theater and cinema actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR
Anisim Golosko [ru], Soviet military commander, participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic War
Prince Yevgeny Obolensky, Russian officer from Obolensky's clan, one of the most active participants in the Decembrist revolt
Roman Sokolov [ru], Soviet theater director, teacher, writer, chief director of Kaluga Regional Drama Theatre
Varvara Tsiolkovskaya [ru], Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's wife (grave is lost)
Leonid Chizhevsky [ru], Russian and Soviet inventor-gunner, the creator of the commander's goniometer for firing from closed positions and the device for destroying wire barriers, Major General of Artillery of the Tsarist Army, father of Alexander Chizhevsky
Lydia Shevchenko [ru], Nikita Khrushchev's first school teacher
Vladimir Shurygin [ru], Soviet musician, guitarist of the band Sinyaya Ptitsa
Yevgeny Dreizin [ru], composer, musician, military conductor (grave is lost)
Valentina Nikitina [ru], Soviet theater actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR
Aleksandra Troitskaya, Soviet microbiologist-leprologist
Alexander Kvashnin [ru], Major General of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945)
Mikhail Fischer [ru], Russian businessman of German origin, brewer

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