Kremlin Wall Necropolis

The Kremlin Wall Necropolis (????????? ? ??????????? ????? in Russian) is a part of the Kremlin Wall, which surrounds the Moscow Kremlin and overlooks the Red Square, where traditionally the Soviets used to bury the most prominent figures of the USSR and other countries.

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Russian - Kremlin Wall - Moscow Kremlin - Red Square - Soviets - USSR

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The very first burial in the Red Square was performed on November 10, 1917 by the order of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee. The Soviets buried 238 Red Guards and soldiers, who had died during the October Revolution, in two common graves. In the fall of 1919, they buried the secretary of the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party Vladimir Zagorsky and a few other victims of a terrorist act, performed by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries on September 25. The victims of an explosion in the building of the Dorogomilovsky Soviet, People's Commissar of the Postal Service and Telegraph Vadim Podbelsky, American journalist John Reed, secretary of the Moscow Committee Feodor Artyom, diplomats Vaclav Vorovsky and Peter Voikov and others were also buried in the Red Square. In 1924, Lenin's Mausoleum became the center of the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Behind the mausoleum and at the foot of the Senatskaya Tower of the Kremlin, there are graves of Yakov Sverdlov, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Mikhail Frunze, Mikhail Kalinin, Andrei Zhdanov, Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Suslov, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko with monuments. On both sides of the Senatskaya Tower, the Soviets placed the urns with the ashes of the CPSU members and members of foreign Communist parties, statesmen, military and political leaders, prominent people of science and culture into the Kremlin Wall between 1925 and 1984. Several cosmonauts, including the victims of the Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 disasters, are buried in the necropolis as well.

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Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee - Red Guards - October Revolution - Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party - Vladimir Zagorsky - Terrorist act - Left Socialist-Revolutionaries - Dorogomilovsky Soviet - Vadim Podbelsky - John Reed - Feodor Artyom - Vaclav Vorovsky - Peter Voikov - Lenin's Mausoleum - Senatskaya Tower - Yakov Sverdlov - Felix Dzerzhinsky - Mikhail Frunze - Mikhail Kalinin - Andrei Zhdanov - Joseph Stalin - Kliment Voroshilov - Semyon Budyonny - Mikhail Suslov - Leonid Brezhnev - Yuri Andropov - Konstantin Chernenko - CPSU - Communist - Cosmonaut - Soyuz 1 - Soyuz 11

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In 1967, the Soviets opened a memorial called the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin Wall in the Alexander Garden.

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1967 - Memorial - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Alexander Garden

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