The Northern Cemetery of Rostov-on-Don is one of thethe largest in terms of cemeteries in Europe and in the European part of Russia. It takes the second place after the South St. Petersburg cemetery. The area of the necropolis is about 400 hectares. It is divided into 225 sections, each of them contains from 1,000 to 3,000 grave burials. Annually, the cemetery increases by approximately 9,000 graves.
In recent years, the problem of lack offree places for new burials. The city management from time to time raises the issue of closing the Northern Cemetery for burial, but the opening of a new one in the city has not yet been prepared, and burials continue. At present, the Northern Cemetery is the only public cemetery in Rostov-on-Don, where burials are made with a coffin and burial of ashes in urns.

Description
The northern cemetery of Rostov-on-Don was opened in1972. About 500 thousand people were buried here. On the territory there is a temple, a cemetery administration building, outbuildings, ritual companies that are engaged in all kinds of ritual services. There is a fixed-route taxi on the territory.
The territory of the cemetery is very well-groomed, with a beautifuldeveloped infrastructure. There is a rental of equipment for caring for the burial site, a flower market, a shuttle bus arrives at the cemetery. The territory is under round-the-clock video surveillance.
From the east of the cemetery are the land of the farm "Temernitsky", from the north - a new residential microdistrict "Suvorovsky", in the south-eastern part there is a shop "Auchan", in the southwest - a cemetery of domestic animals.
The most prestigious sites in the cemetery - near the entrance, there are burials of famous people and the most valuable tombstones.
In the administration of the necropolis there is a computerized database that allows to search for graves and provides information about their location.

Crematorium in the Northern Cemetery of Rostov-on-Don
On the territory of the churchyard in 2001 was built andThe crematorium is open and the site for burial of urns is arranged. But most relatives prefer to bury the remains of deceased loved ones in a traditional way, using a coffin.
Temple
On the territory of the Northern Cemetery of Rostov-on-Donthere is a temple of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, next to which there are burials of church workers and clergymen, they form an independent necropolis.

Burial of famous people in the cemetery of the city of Rostov-on-Don
From the entrance to the cemetery stretched the Alley of Heroes,burials of military and honored residents of Rostov are located here. Here is the Monument to the participants of the Great Patriotic War, established in 2010.
Eternal rest was found at the city cemeteryfamous public, scientific, cultural figures of the city and country. Not far from the entrance is the grave of Nikolayev V.V., a famous Rostov athlete, Olympic champion, wrestler. On the main alley there is the tomb of Savin ES, a well-known Rostov scientist, a civil engineer of the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute. Here, on the Alley of Heroes, there is the grave of the famous Rostov journalist and poet Y.P. Krymsky, his grave monument looks like a real pen, and represents a romantic image of poetry.
Burials of famous figures of Rostov and Russia:
- Graves of artists and architects: V. Slepchenko, Russian artist; Ganus IV, architect, author of architectural projects of a number of Rostov churches.
- Tomb of the poet - Alushkina NB
- The graves of musicians: G. Yu. Dizhechko, Russian rock musician, Matrosskaya Tishina group; Andrianov V.V., Russian singer, soloist of the VIA “Leisya, song”; Nazaretov KA, jazz musician and pianist.
- The graves of famous Russian actors: Ozigova T. A., theater actress, people's artist of the Soviet Union; MI Bushnov, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People’s Artist of the Soviet Union.
- The graves of athletes: Shatvoryan GI, Soviet wrestler, world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling; Nikolaev VV, wrestler, Olympic champion.
- The grave of the military - AA Pechersky, an officer of the Red Army, the leader of a successful revival in a concentration camp in the war.
- The grave of a scientist - Vorovich II, academician, mathematician.

Cemetery Address
In the area where the Northern cemetery of Rostov-on-Don is located, shuttle bus number 77 and bus number 33 pause, orbital stop. From her walk about a kilometer.
The address of the Northern cemetery of Rostov-on-Don: the city of Rostov-on-Don, Orbitalnaya street, 1a.
Operating mode: from 8:00 to 17:00 (winter period), from 8:00 to 20:00 (summer period).
North cemetery Rostov-on-Don: prices
To each resident by the law of the Russian Federationburial services are guaranteed. On the website of the city administration of the city published information with the approved value of the funeral services. Two lists of prices are indicated: one for those who are buried by relatives or relatives, and the second for those who are buried by the state.
For example, these prices are:
- The coffin - 2058 rubles (for the second category of citizens it will cost the state 1730 rubles).
- Delivery of the coffin to the cemetery - 950 rubles.
- Digging grave pit -1300 rubles.
- Cremation - 2250 rubles.
Data on the cost of services are as of 2016.
According to the administration of the cemetery in the future, the cost of burial will only increase, this is due to the increase in prices in the ritual business, therefore, the cost and services will increase.
Due to the fact that in the Norththe cemetery was almost no free land for new burials, a new place for the cemetery was identified. The administration of Rostov-on-Don purchased a new plot of land for a city cemetery, located 12 km from the city.