Vagankovo Cemetery

Vagankovo Cemetery
Ваганьковское кладбище
Church of the Renewal of the Temple of the Resurrection at Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery is located in European Russia
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery is located in Moscow
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery is located in Moscow Ring Road
Vagankovo Cemetery
Vagankovo Cemetery
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Location in Presnensky District, Moscow
Details
Established1771 (1771)
Location
Sergey Makeev Street [ru], 15
Presnensky District, Moscow
CountryRussia
Coordinates55°46′05″N 37°32′54″E / 55.76806°N 37.54833°E / 55.76806; 37.54833
TypePublic, military graves, memorial
StyleEmpire style
Size47.9 ha (118 acres)
No. of gravesMore than 100,000[1]
Websiteritual.mos.ru/perechen/cemetery/the-cemetery-vagankovsky.php
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Vagankovo Cemetery (Russian: Ваганьковское кладбище, romanized: Vagan'kovskoye kladbishche) is located in the Presnensky District of Moscow, Russia. It was established in 1771, in an effort to curb an outbreak of bubonic plague in Central Russia. The cemetery was one of those created outside the city proper so as to prevent the contagion from spreading.

More than 500,000 people are estimated to have been buried at Vagankovo Cemetery from 1771 to 1990.[1] As of 1990, the cemetery contained slightly more than 100,000 graves.[1] The vast necropolis contains the mass graves from the Battle of Borodino, the Battle of Moscow, and the Khodynka Tragedy. It is the burial site for many prominent people from the academic, artistic, military, and sports communities of Russia and the old Soviet Union.

The cemetery is served by several Orthodox churches constructed between 1819 and 1823 in the Muscovite version of the Empire style.

  1. ^ a b c Артамонов [Artamonov], Михаил Дмитриевич [Mikhail Dmitriyevich] (1991). Ваганьково [Vagankovo] (in Russian). Moscow: Московский рабочий [Moscow Worker]. p. 8. ISBN 5-239-01167-2. Retrieved 8 April 2023 – via Internet Archive. За 220 лет официального существования кладбища на нем захоронено свыше полумиллиона москвичей. Сохранилось же немногим более 100 тысяч могил.