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Jewish Cemetery


Categories / City Services/Cemeteries (see also Architecture and Urban Planning)
Categories / Architecture/Cemeteries (see also Municipal Economy)

JEWISH Cemetery (66а Alexandrovskoy Fermy Avenue), in the Nevsky Region, close to Obukhovo Railway Station. Its area is about 27.4 hectares. It was opened in 1875 as a Jewish section of Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery, organized by the city authorities for people of all religions (Orthodox part is situated beyond the railway embankment), earlier, (since 1802) the Jewish part was situated at Volkovskoe Lutheran Cemetery. The Jewish Cemetery with a complex of buildings became the spiritual and cultural centre of the St. Petersburg Jewish community. By its opening, a wooden preaching house for ablution and burial service was constructed (reconstructed in stone in 1908-09, architect Y.G. Gevirtz). On old tombs one finds Jewish symbolism: the Star of David, Kohen's hands, menorah, Torah scrolls, tables of the covenant, the tree of lament. Many of the monuments were designed by famous architects (A.V. Malov, M.B. Kvart, B.I. Girshovich).The so-called Holy Brotherhood was in charge of the burials according to the old ritual. Jewish Cemetery had special rules. It had a permanent supervisor (shamash) and an architect. Among those buried hare are railway entrepreneur and public figure S.S. Polyakov, publisher and Maecenas baron D.G. Ginzburg, sculptor M.M. Antokolsky, revolutionary V.K. Slutskaya, historian M.S. Altman, pianist A.N. Kobylyansky, collector M.S. Lesman, translator T.I. Silman, architect M.A. Khidekel, founder of the Tuberculosis Institute A.Y. Sternberg. There are beds of honour for sailors of the Baltic Fleet, perished during the Great Patriotic War, and citizens who died in the Siege of Leningrad.

Reference: Лукин В. М. Еврейское кладбище // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 450-465.

A. A. Alexeev.

Persons
Altman Moisei Semenovich
Altman Natan Isaevich
Antokolsky Mark Matveevich
Gevirtz Yakov Germanovich
Ginzburg David Goratsievich
Girshovich Boris Ionovich
Khidekel Mordukh Aronovich
Kobylyansky Alexsey Nikolaevich
Kvart Mikhail Borisovich
Lesman Moisei Semenovich
Malov Alexsey Vasilievich
Polyakov Samuil Solomonovich
Silman Tamara Isaakovna
Slutskaya Vera Klementievna (Berta Bronislavovna)
Sternberg Abram Yakovlevich

Addresses
Alexandrovskoy Fermy Passage/Saint Petersburg, city, house 66, litera л. А

Bibliographies
Лукин В. М. Еврейское кладбище // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993

The subject Index
Siege of 1941-44

Chronograph
1875


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Antokolsky M.M., (1843-1902), sculptor

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Cemeteries (entry)

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Ginzburg I.Y., (1859-1939), sculptor

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Jews

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Sternberg L.Y., (1861-1927), ethnographer

STERNBERG Lev (Haim) Yakovlevich (1861-1927, Duderhof now renamed as the settlement of Mozhaysky, Leningrad Region), an ethnographer, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1924