The cemetery of Lubelskie was closed to mass graves during the USSR. Today it exists as a memorial and its gate is open for visitors who wish to pay tribute to their relatives and friends. However, this necropolis is among the oldest in the capital. What is its history, and in what condition is the ancient cemetery today?
The history of the necropolis
The cemetery of Lublin was founded in 1635. It got its name from the nearest estate and the village of Lublin (from the 18th century, earlier - Godunovo). Originally it was a typical rural churchyard, where the peasants were buried. Since the beginning of the XVIII century in Lublino began to build summer residences and giving wealthy and noble families. Over time, the borders of Moscow also changed, and very soon people from the nearest residential neighborhoods were buried in the Lublin cemetery. Since 1939, the official archive of graves has been kept, in 1960 the necropolis was included in the list of Moscow, and a little later it was closed and was given the status of a memorial.
Lublin Cemetery today
Today, this necropolis is part of the Southeast Administrative District of Moscow. The territory of the cemetery is about 19 hectares. The cemetery of Lublin today looks well-groomed and well-maintained. The paths are asphalted, in the summer season the living flower gardens are broken. At the entrance to the territory there is an information board with a plan-scheme of the necropolis. On such an ancient graveyard it is nice to see a lot of well-groomed graves. If you want to order monuments to the Lublin cemetery and other elements of the ritual decoration of burials is not difficult. On the territory of the necropolis works organization that offers the manufacture and installation of sculptures, tombstones and fences. Also, if you want, you can rent accessories for grave care.
Do they bury at the Lublin Necropolis today?
The cemetery officially received the status of a memorial still in Soviet times. But, despite the official closure of the necropolis, here and today family and family burials are held. To organize such a funeral it is necessary to collect all the necessary documents and to confirm the relationship with the person whose grave is already in the necropolis. Burials are held today in two ways: a coffin with a body or an urn with ashes to the ground. Cemetery Lyublinskoe is being improved today. In 2001, not far from the ancient necropolis was built and consecrated the temple of St. Andrew, it can order memorial services and funeral services. On the territory of the cemetery there is a mass grave of soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, recently a monument to defenders of the Motherland was also erected here. There is also a site on which the graves of enemy prisoners of war were buried.
Address and mode of operation for visitors
Lublin Cemetery is located at Stavropolskaya Street, 74a. It works daily from 9.00 to 19.00 in the summer season and from 9.00 to 17.00 - in the winter. It's not difficult to get here by private and public transport. From the metro station "Tekstilshiki" there are buses № 54, 228, and from "Lublino" - № 54 and 242. You can also take the route No. 242 from the metro station "Volzhskaya". In the days of church holidays, additional public transport flights are organized to the necropolis and back. If your goal is the Lublin cemetery, how to reach it on a private car is also easy to remember. If you are driving along the MKAD, you need to turn off at the 13th kilometer from the inner strip. Then continue along the Upper Fields, then turn right onto Mariinsky Park, then left to Krasnodar Street, and the last turn again to the left - Tikhoretsky Boulevard, very soon you will drive up to the central entrance to the necropolis territory.