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    Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новодевичье кладбище, romanized: Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of...
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  • Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946), founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble Boris Alexandrov (1905–1994), leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble Abraham Alikhanov, (1904–1970)...
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    Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новодевичье кладбище) in Saint Petersburg is a historic cemetery in the south-west part of the city near the Moscow Triumphal...
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    Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery (Russian: Новоде́вичий монасты́рь, Богоро́дице-Смоле́нский монасты́рь), is probably...
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    Kremlin Wall Necropolis (category National cemeteries)
    The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. Burials there...
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    tended to prefer the Smolensky Cemetery; or artists, who had traditionally chosen the Nikolskoe or Novodevichy Cemetery. This necessitated the transfer of...
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    by the 1830s the New Lazarevskoe Cemetery became more popular. Burials initially took place in the eastern part of the cemetery, and in 1825 the holy...
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    where burials ceased after 1985, and was opened with its inaugural burial on 21 June 2013. The first decision to establish a national cemetery was adopted...
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    new burials since the 1980s. The cemetery outside the monastery walls was established in 1910, when there was no more place for new burials inside the medieval...
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    commissioned in 1673 by Artamon Matveyev. The cemetery is administered as part of the Novodevichy Cemetery complex. Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979), Andrei...
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