Arkhangelsk cemetery

Originally existed as a cemetery at the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk church.

March 3, 1865 officially adopted by the city. ^[one]

The first elder of the city Arkhangelsk cemetery was elected and sworn in as tradesman Ivan Fedorovich Samartsev. ^[one]

There are no crypts in this cemetery and the gravestones of the pre-revolutionary pores are very rare. But it is on one of such tombstones that the most extensive in Kazan is carved on a stone - in 16 lines an epitaph. It is located on the base of the cross on the grave of a young man who drowned in 1909 in the Volga near Upper Uslon .

- Leo Zharzhevsky. Kazan. Walking in the city of the dead

Arkhangelsk cemetery is divided into 48 sections.

On it are located:

• Chapel in honor of Archangel Michael ( Orthodox ).

• Military graves.

• Composition "Star".

• Monument "Warrior".

• Memorial to victims of political repression.

• Burial of foreign warriors.

• Administration of the cemetery.

• Monument manufacturing workshop.

• Bathroom and water source.

World War I and Civil War burials

It is known that on the territory of the Arkhangelsk cemetery during the First World War , burial was carried out by soldiers of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies who died in captivity.

In the central part of the necropolis, a monument made of black stone in the shape of a cross is preserved, at the base of which there are inscriptions in German and Russian: “Dem Andenken der während des Weltkrieges 1914 - 1918 verstorbenen deutschen u. östreich-ungarischen Soldaten das dankbare Vaterland. / Dedicated by the fatherland to the memory of the dead in Kazan during the World War of German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers. ”

Here, during the civil war, the dead Bolsheviks were buried.

Graves of the Great Patriotic War

In the central part of the Arkhangelsk cemetery there is a military burial place during the Great Patriotic War . In the archival documents of hospitals about the burial of soldiers, it is mentioned under the names "Arkhangelsk cemetery", "Military cemetery", "Brotherly cemetery", "cemetery number 1". ^[2]

Here are buried the soldiers who died in various evacuation hospitals of Kazan , the military personnel of the Kazan garrison and other military units who stayed in the city in 1941-1945.

As of 2009, the names of 1,645 buried were immortalized on 456 tombstones, and 536 names from unreserved graves on two stelae. There are also 10 mass graves in the cemetery, all nameless. ^[2]

Typical curbstones made of marble chips, without fences, are installed on the graves, there is a lawn covering between the curbstones. Mass graves are indicated by grave mounds, concrete borders and a curbstone with the inscription "Mass grave".

At the entrance to the site, the composition “Star” is installed with the relief inscription “1941 - 1945”, in the middle - the monument “Warrior” (a monument in the form of a sculpture of a soldier on a pedestal with a mourning wreath in his hand). The inscriptions are made on the three faces of the pedestal: on the right and left sides - “Eternal memory to the glorious Soviet soldiers who fell during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. in the struggle for freedom and independence of our country. ” On the front side - “Let you die! But in a song of the brave and strong in spirit, You will always be a living example, A call of the proud - to freedom, to light! ( M. Gorky ). ”

Near the sculpture of a soldier, two steles are installed, on which a list of soldiers buried in the cemetery is engraved.

There is also a burial site for foreign soldiers at the Arkhangelsk cemetery, on which a memorial sign (stone) is set with the inscription carved on it: “Foreign WARRIORS who died from wounds in the hospitals of the city of Kazan are buried in this place”. Typical curbstones with the names of the dead are installed on the graves.

The Arkhangelsk cemetery served as one of the burial places of the executed and deceased in prisons of Kazan from 1918 to 1940s. The exact number of buried is unknown. ^[3]

At the central entrance to the Arkhangelsk cemetery on October 30, 1998 , on an empty place, at the initiative of the Kazan Memorial Society, the Kazan Administration opened a memorial to the victims of political repression buried here at different times in common graves. ^[four]

It includes a commemorative sign (stone) with the inscription in Russian and Tatar languages: “Eternal memory / Syasy repression of the ellarynd atylgannarg MӘҢGELEK ISTLEK”, shot to death during political repressions, as well as ten marble stellas with the names buried here in alphabetical order here from 1929 to 1942 the victims of political repression (total 2760 names). ^[3]

The Arkhangelsk cemetery, like many others, has its secrets. The Chekists, carrying out the death sentences to their political opponents, indicated in one of the acts that the executed in Kazan were buried "in the Far Cemetery." Who knows if this is not Arkhangelsk, especially since, according to the memoirs of A. Baratynskaya, the corpse of the executed A. Baratynsky , a poet and grandson of a famous poet, the Chekists allowed to take “from the pit beyond the Arkhangelsk cemetery”. It is also known that in this cemetery, in the middle part, opposite the now destroyed dog kennel, prisoners were buried.

- Leo Zharzhevsky. Kazan. Walking in the city of the dead

In 2007, with the funds of S.V. Zolotov, a chapel was built in the central part of the Arkhangelsk cemetery in honor of Archangel Michael . ^[five]

Divine services are held daily; The opening hours of the chapel are from 09.00 to 15.00.

The clergy of the chapel are clergy of the Holy Assumption Monastery of Sviyazhsky . Donations and money raised from the sale of candles and made demands are sent to the revival of this monastery. ^[five]

• Official site of the Arkhangelsk cemetery .
• Search for burials in the Arkhangelsk cemetery