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etc. – were unceremoniously dumped here until the grave was filled and closed in 1942. The pit currently bears two markers, one erected during the Soviet era and simply reading "Common Grave Number One: Unclaimed Ashes from 1930–42." while the other was erected after 1989 and reads
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in Moscow. Most of the mortal remains buried at the New Donskoy Cemetery are therefore interred in urns. The church featured extended vaults which seemed suitable to accommodate the technical equipment for the cremation of bodies. The new crematorium was opened in October 1927 and most of the
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The cemetery outside the monastery walls was established in 1910, when there was no more place for new burials inside the medieval monastery. The speaker of the first Russian parliament,
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in the USSR. The ashes of numerous executed prisoners, both common and high-ranking—including notorious figures such as
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were cremated here. Until the mid-1970s the Donskoy crematorium remained the only one of its kind in Moscow.
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The Orthodox church of St. Anna of Kashin was used by the Soviets as the first
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authorities dug a large pit in the east portion of the cemetery to act as a
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were secretly buried at the Donskoy Cemetery. It is believed that the
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during the Tsarist era, which the Soviets had revoked as part of
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for the cremated ashes of executed political prisoners from
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were exhumed and transferred to the more prestigious
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Donskoi Cemetery
Donskoy Monastery

Moscow
Russia
Coordinates
55°42′44″N 37°36′08″E / 55.71222°N 37.60222°E / 55.71222; 37.60222
necropolis
Donskoy Monastery
Moscow
Sergey Muromtsev
Maria Gartung
Alexander Pushkin
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Russian Revolution
Battle of Moscow
NKVD
Mass graves
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Pyotr Krasnov
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Isaac Babel
Valentin Serov
Sergei Taneyev
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Novodevichy Cemetery
St. Seraphim
crematorium
Kremlin Wall Necropolis

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