Donetskoe More Cemetery

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]

Donetskoe More Cemetery
Graves at the Donetskoe More Cemetery
Details
Established1960
CountryUkraine
Coordinates47°56′25″N 37°47′40″E
TypePublic
Size37 ha
No. of graves280+
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Name

The Donetskoe More Cemetery is named after the nearby Donetskoe More reservoir, 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
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  2. "Кладбища «Мушкетово» и «Донецкое море» в Донецке". mitzvatemet.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  3. "Список памятников истории и культуры города Донецка, взятых на государственный учет до 2014 года". gorod-donetsk.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  4. Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2005, April 2006, 109-2 Joint Committee Print, *. 2006.
  5. "Захарченко с почестями похоронили на кладбище «Донецкое море» - Газета.Ru | Новости". Газета.Ru (in Russian). 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  6. "Somali unit commander Mikhail Tolstykh to be buried next to Arsen Pavlov". dan-news.ru. 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  7. "Они тоже гостили на земле... Толстых Михаил Сергеевич (Гиви) (1980-2017)". nec.m-necropol.ru. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  8. "IMAGO". www.imago-images.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
  9. "Ольгу Качуру похоронили на кладбище «Донецкое море»". AiF (in Russian). 2022-08-04. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
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