Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery
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Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery (Russian, in full: Пискарёвское мемориальное кладбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, at the Avenue of the Unconquered (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad. It is probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people buried therein.
The memorial complex by Yevgeniy Levinson was opened on May 9, 1960. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in 186 mass graves. Near the entrance an eternal flame is located. A marble plate affirms that from September 4, 1941 to January 22, 1944 107,158 air bombs were dropped on the city, 148,478 shells were fired, 16,744 men died, 33,782 were wounded and 641,803 died of starvation.
