South Cemetery - a functioning cemetery in St. Petersburg, located on the southern border of the city in the Moscow region . Before the war, the village of Venerezy was located on the site of the cemetery.
| Cemetery | |
| Southern Cemetery | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Location | Saint Petersburg , Volkhonskoye Shosse , 1,  Moscow |
| Diocese | |
| Construction | 1971 |
It was opened in 1971 and is the largest in St. Petersburg and one of the largest in Europe (its area is more than 400 hectares) [1] . It has the prospect of further expansion.
The cemetery has a regular layout; transportation to burial places is carried out along the main roads dividing the plots.
At the Southern cemetery, the majority of deceased citizens from all areas of St. Petersburg are buried. Famous graves of Heroes of the Soviet Union M.P. Vasiliev , N.I. Brozgol , V.P. Gumalenko , F.A. Kharitonov .
Content
- 1 Chapel of St. Tikhon of Moscow
- 2 See also
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Chapel of St. Tikhon of Moscow
For two decades, there was not a single church or chapel in the cemetery for the funeral of the deceased.
In 1992, a small white-stone, multi-faceted single-domed chapel church was laid. The author of the project is N.P. Velichko. The chapel was built by the parish council of St. Sophia Cathedral in Pushkin on donations from believers.
The consecration of the chapel took place on March 5, 1994 in the name of St. Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and All Russia. In January - March 2019, the throne and the iconostasis were installed in the temple. The chapel is attributed to the parish of St. Sophia Cathedral, open daily.
See also
See the category Buried in the Southern Cemetery (St. Petersburg)
Notes
- ↑ Southern Cemetery is the largest necropolis in Europe. (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 26, 2010. Archived December 27, 2009.