Donetskoe_More_Cemetery

Donetskoe More Cemetery

Donetskoe More Cemetery

Cemetery in Leninskyi District, Ukraine


The Donetskoe More Cemetery is a cemetery in Leninskyi District, Donetsk. It is named after the nearby Donetskoe More reservoir. It covers an area of 37 hectares.[1]

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Name

The Donetskoe More Cemetery is named after the nearby Donetskoe More reservoir [ru], an artificial lake in Donetsk. It is the largest reservoir in the Leninskyi District.

Cemetery

The cemetery is located in the Leninskyi District, Donetsk and has an area of 37 hectares. It was made in 1960. The site is owned by the Jewish community.

The cemetery is home to over 280 burials, of them over 100 do not contain a birth or death date.[2] Some of the people buried in the cemetery are soldiers who died during the Soviet-Afghan war and victims of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.[3] The cemetery was vandalized by four neo-Nazis in 2004, who destroyed 21 gravestones.[4]

Notable interments


References

  1. "Кладбища "Мушкетово" и "Донецкое море" в Донецке". mitzvatemet.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  2. "IMAGO". www.imago-images.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.

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