City Memorial Cemetery

City Memorial Cemetery known as the burial place of the dead soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (the natives of Dnepropetrovsk and other cities), as well as ordinary workers, who fought for their rights and freedom during the revolution. For many years it was a deserted place on one of the hills of the city, which later was identified as a common memorial in memory of the brave heroes.

The unique location

Previously, the cemetery and the burial was made to organize on a hilly terrain. And in the modern Dnipropetrovsk on each of its hills are historical graves which today are designated as memorials - Sevastopol park dedicated to those killed in the Crimean War of the 18th century; squares and parks - Park Kalinin , frustrated at the burial site of Soviet and German soldiers of World War II.

City Memorial Cemetery was founded in the period of the 1917 revolution, then there began to bury the dead in the civil war of 1918-1921, and after World War burial place was packed. In 1967 the official opening ceremony of the memorial. Sculptors prefer to create an uncluttered composition of concrete slabs, and Eternal Flame. Complementing the plot Memory Alley with signs of names of fallen soldiers identified.

Historic district

The memorial is located at the beginning of the avenue of Karl Marx . He will join the main streets to the train station, which goes by different transport. On the opposite side you can find the unique park complex Oktyabrskaya Square , in whose territory the urban memorial cemetery. Here are concentrated the most important place in the history of Dnepropetrovsk: Transfiguration Cathedral , built by order of Empress Catherine II, a diorama of "Battle for the Dnepr" , inside which detail scenes restored hostilities during the crossing of the Dnieper, Yavornytsky Historical Museum , the sculpture "Scythian women" and much more.