Baikove Cemetery ( uk, Байкове кладовище) is a historic cemetery memorial in Holosiiv Raion of

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. It is a National Historic Landmark of Ukraine and is known as a

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of distinguished people. It was established in 1833. Among the buried, it includes

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, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi,

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, Viacheslav Chornovil,

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, Olena Pchilka,

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, Ostap Vyshnya, Ivan Mykolaychuk, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky,

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, Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko, Oleg Antonov,

Viktor Bannikov Viktor Maksymovych Bannikov (russian: Ви́ктор Макси́мович Ба́нников, uk, Віктор Максимович Банніков; 28 April 1938 – 25 April 2001) was a Ukrainian football official and a Soviet player. He ...

and Valeri Lobanovsky and the soldier that raised the soviet flag over Berlin: Aleksey Kovalev.

History

The cemetery was established in 1833. It has got its name from the nearby Baikovo estate. The oldest part of the cemetery is located south of the present vul. Baikova. The biggest part is located north of the street and was established in the 1880s. It is partly surrounded by a wall. Besides the Orthodox graves there are also Catholic and Lutheran sections. In Soviet times the Baikove cemetery became the main necropolis of the Kyiv's

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, middle and

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es. Many of the headstones became pieces of monumental art. Also after the Ukrainian independence the cemetery has remained the most prestigious burial ground in the city. 87 are on the

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. An Orthodox Church (Ascension of the Lord) in Byzantine style was built at the cemetery in 1884–1889. It was built on the proceeds from the sale of burial places. During the Soviet times it was preserved as a memorial hall for funeral ceremonies. Today it is again used as a church. In 1975 a new crematorium in modern style was built in the western part of the cemetery.

Gallery

File:Леся-Українка.JPG, The writer

's grave File:Mykola-lysenko-grave.jpg, The composer

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko ( uk, Мико́ла Віта́лійович Ли́сенко; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a List of Ukrainian composers, Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic mus ...

's grave File:Hvojka Vіkentіj mogila.JPG, Hvojka Vіkentіj's grave File:Baikove-cemetery-2006.jpg, Section 52a where several notable Ukrainians like Valeri Lobanovsky and Vadym Hetman are buried.

External links

Entsyklopediya Kyiv

ForUM. 28 November 2011 * Habdrakhimov, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170220022619/http://www.unn.com.ua/uk/news/769031-baykove-kladovische%3A-tak-kogo-ge-hovayut-na-elitnomu-nekropoli Baikove Cemetery: so who is being buried at the elite necropolis? (Байкове кладовище: так кого ж ховають на "елітному некрополі"?)]'' Ukrainian National News (UNN). 12 June 2012
In Kyiv hunters for metal destroyed the Baikove Cemetery (У Києві мисливці за металом розгромили Байкове кладовище)
Segodnya. 8 October 2015. * Malenkov, R.
Baikove Necropolis (Байковий некрополь)
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