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Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery


Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetery
74 Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh
St. Petersburg
Russia
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“piskaryovka cemetery,a meditation place” VirtualTourist.com
TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #5 of 150 attractions in St. Petersburg
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Nearly half a million civilians who died in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad (the city's name from 1924-1991)are remembered at this cemetery with mass...... more » Nearly half a million civilians who died in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad (the city's name from 1924-1991)are remembered at this cemetery with mass graves, an eternal flame, a statue of the Motherland, and photographs and documents describing the siege. « less
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Attraction type: Cemetery, Monument
Address: 74 Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh St. Petersburg
Russia

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“Another gripping reminder of Russia's terrible suffering in WW II”
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5 of 5 stars
travelpictures813   12 contributions
Vermont, USA
Dec 1, 2009
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Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery is a somber, powerful place, which stuns you with the contrast of neatly landscaped mounds and mostly open space, and the the reality that around you are about buried about a half-million people. To put that in perspective, that's more -- by a significant amount -- than the total US war dead in WW II, the Korean... more

“My visit to Leningrad and Piskariovskoye Memorial Cemetary in 1991”
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5 of 5 stars
USSRfriend   1 contribution
Royal Oak, Michigan
Mar 23, 2009

I visited this cemetery with my Leningrad hosts during my trip to the Soviet Union in 1991. I was deeply moved being there and I cried a lot. There are two types of mass graves, many for military and many for civilians. I was told there are 10,000 buried in each of the many mass graves. I was also told... more

“Siege of Leningrad Cemetery”
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4 of 5 stars
raymor   2 contributions
United Kingdom
Mar 11, 2005
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The Cemetery for the Siege of Leningrad - This is the most moving place I have ever visited - my spine crawls just to think back to it! It is almost 20 years since I was there but I can still "see" it in my mind's eye. I am about to re-visit St Petersburg, as it now is, after all... more

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74 Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh, St. Petersburg, Russia