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      🏛 Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery

      Расстанная ул. / Камчатская ул.

      One of the city's oldest cemeteries (1756): old avenues, chapels and crypts.

      Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
      © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
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      Volkovo Orthodox Cemetery
      © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The cemetery was founded by a Senate decree on 11 May 1756.
      • The name comes from Volkova village and Volkovo Field, where, according to documents of the time, wolves roamed in packs.
      • "Mostki" (little bridges) was the name for the wooden planking on the muddy paths; there were the "Gypsy" and "German" mostki.
      • Construction of the stone Resurrection Church began in 1782 under Ivan Starov.
      • In 1888 the court Cossack Tikhon Sidorov, killed in the wreck of the tsar's train at Borki, was buried here.
      • The road here gave its name to Rasstannaya Street — "from the verb 'to part'".

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      • Volkovo: Literatorskie Mostki and Ligovka
      • Volkovo Cemetery and Literatorskie Mostki

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