Jewish cemeteries in Ulyanovsk - preserved and destroyed Jewish burial places in Ulyanovsk ( Russia ).
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Ulyanovsk, on Robespierre Street, is one of the few surviving historical necropolises of the city. Land for a Jewish cemetery on the northwestern outskirts of the city was allotted in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century. The necropolis was closed for burial in August 1972. On its territory, more than 300 tombstones of the last quarter of the 19th - 3rd quarter of the 20th centuries have been preserved, a caretaker’s house, a wooden building for funeral rites.
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Old Cemetery
Formed in the 1st half of the 19th century, the Jewish community made a striking contribution to the socio-economic and cultural development of Simbirsk-Ulyanovsk. Artisans, doctors, educators, merchants, musicians, lawyers and military personnel rest in the cemetery.
Located in a picturesque natural corner, preserved almost in the center of a developing city, on the slope of the Black Ravine, the necropolis, alas, is abandoned and neglected. Territory and gravestones are absorbed by spontaneously growing woody vegetation. Roofs in buildings failed. Some tombstones are broken and desecrated by vandals. Others are destroyed by the effects of time and natural factors.
On August 3, 1991, the cemetery was vandalized [1] .
New Cemetery
Now at the New ( Isheevsky ) cemetery, which is located on the outskirts of the city in the direction of Kazan, a plot has been allocated to the Jewish community. According to cataloging data, as part of the Le Dor Va Dor project, 400 people were buried in Ulyanovsk in this area. [2]
The fate of Jewish cemeteries
Currently, the Jewish community of Ulyanovsk does not have a separate functioning cemetery.
Literature
- Report of the Head of the Archeology Sector Nikolai Alekseevich Gorbunov and Researcher Ivan Eduardovich Sivoplyas on a visit to the old Jewish cemetery in Ulyanovsk for the purpose of external examination and photographic fixation // June 19, 2006.
Notes
- ↑ Newspaper Word of Youth, August 3, 1991
- ↑ Cataloging of Jewish burials in Ulyanovsk (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 12, 2010. Archived March 4, 2016.