| Brethren Cemetery | |
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| Location: | Rostov-on-Don |
| Country: | Russia |
| Coordinates: | 47.2422°N 39.7164°W |
| Size: | 2.2 km2 |
The Brethren Cemetery (Russian: Братское кладбище) is a cemetery at Oktyabrskiy District of the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.[1]
The cemetery, on the outskirts of the city, was inititllay considered to be a place for burial of the poor, here there were mostly brethren graves. So the cemetery's name derived from here. Later, a section for deceased soldiers and officers appeared at the cemetery, which mostly hasn't survived until our days.
The cemetery has monuments dedicated to soldiers of Rostov-on-Don People's Militia Regiment, who died in November 1941 and a monument in honor of soldiers the 230st NKVD Regiment who also died in November 1941 while defending Rostov-on-Don from invading German forces.[2] [3] From 1998 it is permitted to bury relatives of the ones already buried at the territory of the cemetery.