Baikove Cemetery

Flannelette cemetery located in Kiev, deservedly called the open-air museum. Here are buried outstanding Ukrainians: Pavlo Ticino, Bogdan Stupka, Maria Zankovetskaya, Leonid Bykov, Mikhail Voronin, Nikolay Brainstorming Ivan Nechuy-Levitsky Ostap Cherry, Lesya Ukrainka, Nikolai Amosov, Valery Lobanovsky and many others.

One of the oldest and, if appropriate word here, prestigious cemeteries Ukrainian capital was opened in 1831 for the purpose of disposal of Catholics and Lutherans only, but since the end of 1834 it began to bury and Orthodox. The name of the cemetery originates from the name of the hero of World War II 1812, General Baikov, who owned a farm, which soon became known as "farm Baykova"; General subsequently surname appeared in the title from a nearby mountain and it is located on the cemetery.

Since its inception, flannelette cemetery was divided into separate parts: Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran. But if for the last two constantly courted and they looked like a neat park areas, the orthodox wing was badly run. The reason for this was the poverty of Orthodox believers of Kiev.

To date, the area of ​​the cemetery flannelette crossed the mark of 70 hectares. Street flannelette cuts graves territory into two parts, unequal in size. Small (it - southern) part - is an old cemetery; large (it - northern) part - a new flannelette cemetery fenced with stone fence. By the mid-19th century in the old cemetery was built a wooden church Demetrius, but later it was dismantled and its existence resembles a memorial at the site of the altar. The new church (Ascension) was built of stone in the New Cemetery in 1889. Sale of land for burials brought considerable profit as to the cemetery and church.

In 1975, in the vicinity of the cemetery was constructed only in Kiev crematorium - a rather unpleasant for its intended purpose and smelled the building, but at the same time one of the most unusual and quite beautiful architectural buildings of the capital.

Modern flannelette cemetery - this open-air museum, memorial complex, which is worth visiting if only because that is found peace by many prominent artists, doctors, composers, writers and scientists.