All cities of our country and the world differ from each other.friend. Different buildings, businesses, people ... But there are places that are found in any more or less large settlement. This is a graveyard. It so happens that a person is mortal, and he needs the last shelter. There are no guided tours here. People come to the cemeteries to talk with departed loved ones, and informal youth sometimes visit abandoned graves, trying to penetrate the secrets of the other world.
In this article we will talk about several of the largest graveyards of Russia, which, by a strange coincidence, have the same name "Northern Cemetery".
On the pages of the Guinness Book of Records
Первое из них - Северное кладбище Ростова-на-Дону.Despite the fact that it was founded not so long ago (in 1972), it is one of the largest not only in Russia, but also in Europe, which is why it got into the Book of Records. On the area of 350 hectares there are more than 355 thousand graves.

Northern cemetery of Perm
Another one of the largest graveyards of Russia.And also opened not so long ago - in 1982. The scheme of the Northern cemetery clearly shows that a vast territory of 243 hectares is divided into quarters. They can also be combined by type, depending on who is buried there. There are Jewish, Gypsy, Muslim, military, children's neighborhoods, the area of those killed in the performance, honorary citizens. Separately, also allocated areas for the burial of unclaimed and unknown. 28 of 88 victims of the 2008 plane crash were buried here. Here, a year after it, on September 14, 2009, a memorial to the victims was unveiled. And soon after that another tragedy occurred - a fire at the Lame Horse nightclub. Many of those who never came home that night are also buried here.

Another North Cemetery.His story is much longer than the two already mentioned. It began in 1875. True, then the cemetery was called Ouspensky, just like a small wooden church. Located in one of the northern suburbs of St. Petersburg (Pargolovo village), it was originally intended for rich citizens. However, the calculations of the city authorities were not justified. Basically, the last shelter was not found by wealthy people. A little later, the military began to bury the lower ranks. And in 1900 the church of Alexander Nevsky was built, where it was possible to hear from time to time a striking singing of a military choir. The revolution in Russia has changed a lot, and she did not spare the Northern cemetery. Both churches are destroyed, the crypts are looted, the graves are ravaged. The time of the Great Patriotic War was the time of mass graves in this necropolis. The defenders of besieged Leningrad are buried in mass graves.
