The famous Khovanskoye Cemetery, the largest cemetery in Europe, is located in the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow. Its total area is about 200 hectares. Many celebrities are buried on the territory of the cemetery, there are architectural structures of incredible beauty, built at the end of the last century.
Khovanskoye cemetery is one of the youngest burial places in Moscow. It was founded in 1972, not far from a small village called Nikolo-Khovanskoye. By now, its territory is the largest among all the necropolises of the European continent. It is divided into three sectors - North, West and Central.
At the Khovanskoye cemetery there is a crematorium and a washing room, its territory is maximally landscaped, flower beds are laid out, water intakes of natural stone are built, paths are covered with asphalt, for the convenience of visitors to burial places, rental points for various equipment for caring for graves have been created. And in 1997, the cemetery administration assigned a special site for the burial of Muslims.
What can be seen at the Khovanskoye cemetery
The flow of visitors to the Khovanskoye cemetery consists not only of the descendants of those who are buried there. The cemetery is also one of the most popular places among tourists and guests of the city, because many famous people are buried here. In the Central and Western sectors of the cemetery, the Heroes of the Soviet Union, who received this high title in the Great Patriotic War, found their last refuge at different times. Here are the graves of students who died on the Ural ridge in 1982. Many writers and poets, actors and honored pop and circus workers, athletes, politicians and even authoritative representatives of the criminal world are buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery.
The architectural structures of the Khovansky cemetery amaze with their beauty. Through the efforts of parishioners, at the expense of the relatives of the dead and visitors, an unusually beautiful temple of St. John the Baptist and the Holy Prophet Forerunner, the chapel of the icon of the Vladimir Mother of God and Marina the Reverend were built here. Tourists and guests of the city strive to get here during services dedicated to Christian holidays or rituals, as this is an amazingly beautiful and mesmerizing sight.
How to get to the Khovanskiy cemetery in Moscow
You can get to the Khovansky cemetery by city bus. From the Teply Stan metro station, which is located on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line, bus No. 600 runs to the Khovansky cemetery. And from the Yugo-Zapadnaya Sokolnicheskaya metro line, bus 802 of the route leaves. On weekdays, passengers are delivered to the Khovansky cemetery from 8.30 to 19.00, and on weekends from 7.00 to 19.00.
