Memorial Cemetery to the Victims of 9th January

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MEMORIAL CEMETERY TO THE VICTIMS OF 9TH JANUARY (4 Ninth January Avenue), in Nevsky District near Obukhovo Railway Station. Its square is 76 hectares. It was founded in 1872 as a city cemetery. Until 1925, it had been called Preobrazhenskoe after the pyramid wooden Holy Transfiguration Cathedral (1872, architect P.Y. Suzor; has not remained). At the end of Poltavskaya Street, a reception building for coffin transfer from the city to the cemetery with departments for different confessions was constructed; a railway line connected it with Nikolaevskaya Railway. Special burial carriages transported the load to the platform near the cemetery. In 1888, a military department was created at the cemetery. The stone St. Alexander Nevsky Church (1895-96, engineer-commander V.A. Kolyankovsky; in 1983 it was given to the Old Believers commune and re-sanctified as the Holy Virgin Intercession Church) and wooden Kazan Church (1903-05, architect V.A. Demyanovsky; not preserved) were opened there. In 1881, the executed members of Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will ), who organized an attempt against Emperor Alexander II (see March 1, 1881) were secretly buried there; in 1901, perished participants of the Obukhovo Defence (1901)were also buried at this place. In 1905, mass burials of the victims of Bloody Sunday took place here (in 1931, on site of Kazan Church a monument was erected, architect M.G. Manizer, V.A. Witman). In 1914-16, the military part was renamed the Fraternal Cemetery of the Victims of the Great European War. Over 10,000 soldiers, who died in capital hospitals, were buried there. In 1918, the victims who were killed while demonstrating in favour of the Constituent Assembly on 5(18) January 1918, were buried in a bed of honour. According to some information, victims of mass repressions were secretly buried at the cemetery in the 1930s. In the years of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), a fortification line went though the cemetery and thousands of those who perished during the Siege were buried there. Among the buried are: polar explorer V.K. Buynitsky, artist A.L. Kaplan, poet L.L. Aronson, entertainers L.M. Kostritsa, M.A. Kuni, Grand Master S.A. Furman, biologist I.I. Present.

Reference: Лукин В. М. Кладбище "Памяти жертв 9 января" // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 438-449.

A. A. Alexeev. Alexander II, Emperor
Aronson Leonid Lvovich
Buynitsky Viktor Kharlampievich
Demyanovsky Valentin Alexandrovich
Furman Semen Abramovich
Kaplan Anatoly Lvovich
Kolyankovsky Vladimir Arkadievich
Kostritsa Leonid Mikhailovich
Kuni Mikhail Abramovich
Manizer Matvey Genrikhovich
Prezent Isaak Izraelevich
Suzor Pavel Yulievich
Witman Vladimir Alexandrovich
Devyatogo Yanvarya Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Лукин В. М. Кладбище "Памяти жертв 9 января" // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993 First of March, 1881
Obukhovskaya Defence (1901)
Siege of 1941-44
1872
1931