Serafimovskoe memorial cemetery

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Gulyakin, Valery Nikolayevich (photographer, 1959-).    
Serafimovskoe memorial cemetery [Izomaterial: electronic resource]: [album of photographs] / photo VN Gulyakina. - Electronic graphic data (22 files: 419.4 MB). - St. Petersburg, 2013. -
Access mode: the Internet portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
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The album includes 22 photos of the Serafim memorial cemetery: 1. Memorial complex. General form ; 2. The central part of the memorial; 3. Propylaea with carved text and a commemorative cross died in the blockade of the townspeople; 4-5. A memorial cross to the dead in the blockade of the townspeople; 6. The communal grave with a memorable stela; 7-8, 11-15. Stelae on common graves with memorable inscriptions; 9-10. Propylaea with carved text, installed at the entrance to the memorial; 16-17. The central part of the memorial is a four-span portico with five monumental sculptures depicting the defenders and toilers of Leningrad; 18-22. Monumental sculptures depicting the defenders and workers of Leningrad, installed in the central part of the memorial.
Serafimovskoe cemetery was founded in 1905, located in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. On March 1, 1907, the church built in the cemetery was consecrated in the name of St. Seraphim of Sarov. The cemetery was named after the main saint in the church. In 1941-1944 it became the second place of mass graves, after Piskarevsky cemetery. Victims of the siege of Leningrad - more than 100 thousand people are buried in mass graves. January 27, 1965, on the 21st anniversary of the lifting of the blockade, a memorial complex was erected, built on the site of sixteen brotherly grave hills. The general project of the necropolis was developed by Professor I. I. Lukin; sculpture figures were performed by students of the Leningrad Art and Craft College named after. VI Mukhina under the guidance of Professor RK Taurit. At the entrance to the memorial there are propylae and flagpoles with half-masted red and Russian flags. On the propylaea are carved memorable texts. In the center rises a four-span porch on a high plinth, with five monumental sculptures depicting the defenders and toilers of Leningrad. In front of the portico is a granite cube with a lit Eternal Fire and a platform paved with black stone by labradorite. Address: st. Zaudabadnaya Str. 33 .
1. Serafimovskoe memorial cemetery (St. Petersburg, city) - Photographs. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. Territory of Russia: St. Petersburg, city (collection). 5. St. Petersburg: pages of history (collection). 6. The Great Patriotic War - Perpetuation of memory - St. Petersburg, city - 1941 - 1945 - Photographs. 7. Documentary photographs.
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Source of electronic copy: From private collection
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