Solomenskoe cemetery (Kiev)

Solomensky cemetery is a necropolis in Kiev , located on Solomenka , on the odd side of Vozdukhoflotsky Prospekt .

Cemetery
Solomenskoe cemetery
Entrance to the cemetery
A country	Ukraine
City	Kiev, Solomenskaya street, 2
Denomination	interfaith
condition	Closed

Area - 12,048 ha, the number of buried 10 888 ^[1] . Address: Solomenskaya street, 2.

The memorial to the pilots who died in 1957

Memorial on the mass grave of the heroes of World War II

It was founded in the 1880s instead of the Old Solomensky (Pankovsky) cemetery located in the Lybedi valley, which had been operating since 1832 and was liquidated, as it turned out to be on the territory of the railway. In addition to the residents of Solomenki, the deceased teachers and students of the Cadet Corps were buried in the new cemetery. In 1915, a site was allocated for the burial of soldiers who died from wounds received in the battles of the First World War . In the post-revolutionary time, professors of the Theological Academy Peter Kudryavtsev and Vasily Ekzemplyarsky , architect Vasily Osmak , were buried here. In 1957, pilots who were killed in the crash of two Il-14 aircraft over the Zhulyany airport as a result of the negligence of controllers were buried in this cemetery ^[2] .

The cemetery was closed by the decision of the Executive Committee of the Kiev City Council No. 182 of January 27, 1959 . In the 1980s, three sections of the cemetery were allotted for development. In 2005, the Solomensky necropolis, in connection with the end of the cemetery period, was opened for re-burial (installation of coffins in family graves).

There are two mass graves of civilians in the cemetery - those who died during the defense of Kiev in 1941 and were tortured to the Gestapo . From 1943 to 1975, participants in the Great Patriotic War were buried here, on the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis (in 1974), a mass grave was built and a memorial was built.

Today, many sections of the necropolis are in a semi-abandoned state.