The Old Cemetery (also the Pokrovsky Cemetery ) is the destroyed Russian Orthodox cemetery in Harbin , China .
| Old cemetery | |
|---|---|
 Old cemetery in the 1930s | |
| A country | China |
| City | Harbin |
| Established | 1906 |
| Last burial | 1956 |
| Confessional composition | Orthodoxy |
| Reburial at | Huangshan |
History
In 1930, the land administration allocated to the Orthodox Ukrainian community a plot in the cemetery for the construction of the Intercession Church . The temple was founded on June 1, 1930 and built in the Byzantine style according to the project of the civil engineer Julius Petrovich Zhdanov with funds from the parish and Russian residents of Harbin. On December 14, 1930, the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Methodius (Gerasimov) in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. The cost of construction was 32 thousand yen , most of which the parish received as a loan .
In 1957, Harbin city officials decided that the Old Cemetery near the Intercession Church and the New (Assumption) cemetery would be closed. Everyone was invited to transfer the monuments of their relatives and their remains to the Huangshan cemetery [1] .