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      🏛 Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January

      пр. Александровской Фермы / ул. Ткачей (Обухово)

      The old Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery: the mass grave of the victims of Bloody Sunday and a monument of 1931 with a high relief.

      Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
      © MBH · CC BY 4.0
      Cemetery of the Victims of 9 January
      © MBH · CC BY 4.0
      • The cemetery was founded by a decree of 1871 and consecrated in 1872 as Preobrazhenskoye, after the Church of the Transfiguration.
      • In April 1881 the executed members of the 1 March plot — Zhelyabov, Perovskaya, Kibalchich, Mikhailov and Rysakov — were secretly buried here.
      • The cemetery received its present name in 1925, after the mass graves of the victims of Bloody Sunday.
      • Four pillboxes of the Izhora Line survive on the grounds — two monolithic and two prefabricated.
      • In 1992 the daughter of the rector Alexey Chuzhbovsky pointed out the place where those shot in 1937 were buried.

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      • Kupchino: Švejk, quarries and the Izhora Line
      • Kupchino: Quarry Ponds, a Pillbox and an Old Believer Church

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