Baktin Cemetery is a Tomsk city cemetery located near the village of Baktin .
| Baktin Cemetery | |
|---|---|
| A country | Russia |
| Coordinates | |
| Established | 1973 |
| Square | 1.1 km² |
| Official language | Russian |
| Number | 96,000 burials ( 2002 ) |
Content
History
Opened on January 2, 1974 with the aim of replacing the closed Southern Cemetery and was the main city cemetery of Tomsk until 2006.
The name of the cemetery is associated with the close proximity to the village of Bactin , whose name, in turn, comes from the abbreviation of the name " Bacteriological Institute ".
Since January 2007 it has been considered closed, related sub-burials are being carried out [1] .
On June 15, 2011, granite monuments [2] , [3] , [4] were erected at the cemetery, Lieutenant General of the Tsarist Army Nikolai Pepelyaev , former military commandant of Tomsk (his grave at the Transfiguration Cemetery of Tomsk was lost during the liquidation of the cemetery in 1958), and his son - the cavalier of St. George , the White Guard General Anatoly Pepelyaev , who commanded the Siberian army of Kolchak and was shot in 1938 in Novosibirsk .
At the cemetery , the Memorial Society established a stele of memory of hundreds of executed political prisoners buried here. In 1995, the remains of victims of mass executions discovered there were transferred to the Baktin cemetery from Kashtak [5] .
Known Graves
See the category Buried in the Baktin Cemetery.
Notes
- ↑ Burials in the Baktin cemetery are made only next to the related grave, provided that the requirements for the size of the graves are met. Archived June 5, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ June 15, 2011 the memory of the famous soldiers was honored already at the most famous Tomsk cemetery “Baktin”. Archived copy of April 27, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Today at 10 a.m. a monument to Nikolai and Anatoly Pepelyaev unopened) was unveiled at the cemetery in Baktin (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.
- ↑ Monument to the General of the Siberian Army Anatoly Pepelyaev installed in Tomsk Archival copy of June 1, 2014 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ “It was a war against one’s own people”