Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище
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Established9 May 1960
Location
Saint Petersburg
CountryRussia
Coordinates59°59′49″N 30°25′17″E / 59.9969°N 30.4214°E / 59.9969; 30.4214
Central Area of the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Eternal Flame at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Graves at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery (Russian: Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad. On his first visit to Russia in 1993, US President Bill Clinton laid a wreath in commemoration of the victims' deaths and the US-Russian alliance in World War II.