🏛 Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery and St Nicholas Church

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One of the oldest cemeteries in the city (since the 18th century), with the Church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker and quiet alleys above the Okhta.

It is the largest necropolis within the limits of St Petersburg.
The cemetery opened on 16 May 1773; it was long called St George's after the Church of St George the Victorious.
St Nicholas Church was laid down in 1812 with money from the merchant Nikonov and dedicated to the patron of sailors and shipbuilders.
St Nicholas Church is the cemetery's only surviving church and was never closed.
The five-domed Eliseyev family burial church (1881–1885) was demolished in 1929.
In 1983–1984 Energetikov Avenue cut the cemetery in two.

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