22-615: The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery (Russian: Федеральное военное мемориальное кладбище) is a national cemetery of Russia, located in Mytishchinsky District , Moscow Oblast , on the north-eastern outskirts of Moscow. The cemetery was built as the new burial place for national dignitaries to replace the Kremlin Wall Necropolis , where burials ceased after 1985, and was opened with its inaugural burial on 21 June 2013. The first decision to establish
44-479: A 247.5-acre parcel of land that can be accessed from Highway 137 at Km. 11.2. It was built to replace the existing Puerto Rico National Cemetery located in Bayamón, which would reach its capacity in 2022. Construction was underway in 2019 with interments slated to begin in 2021. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) held a dedication ceremony for the cemetery on December 12, 2020. The following list has
66-686: A consequence of the treaties signed which officially ended the Spanish–American War . The area was used as a machine gun firing range during World War II. The Government of the United States decided that the site, which is located in Bayamon and is approximately 13 miles from San Juan, would be suitable for the construction of a new cemetery. The land was transferred to the stewardship of the United States Department of
88-747: A military person, military honors are stipulated, regulated by the Charter of garrison and guard services of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. When burial of civilians, regulations are in place for burial according to the state protocol, where an honor guard, an orchestra, a solemn march are also provided. A uniform regulation of tombstones is in place: a bust or bas-relief. The base and its base are made of natural stone (granite of black, red or gray colors). In some cases, they are made of bronze. Established not earlier than one year after
110-700: A national cemetery was adopted in 1953, as a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers , but the project was never implemented. The burial of national dignitaries irregularly took place at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Red Square , Moscow, ending with the funeral of Soviet General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, there were plans to relocate
132-539: Is a partial list of prominent National Cemeteries: Note: A former church, not a proper cemetery Note: A church, not a proper cemetery Note: A church, not a proper cemetery Puerto Rico National Cemetery , Bayamón Puerto Rico National Cemetery Puerto Rico National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery located in the city of Bayamón , in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico . It encompasses 108.2 acres (43.8 ha) of land, and at
154-401: The cornerstone of the cemetery church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh , which was opened in 2014. On 27 December 2013, the funeral of Mikhail Kalashnikov became the inaugural funeral held at the cemetery, conducted by Metropolitan Juvenally of Krutitsy and Kolomna . The award-winning artist and architect Sergey Vitalevich Goryaev served as artistic director of the project. According to
176-738: The Army and the private firm of Font & Montilla was contracted to build the cemetery. The cemetery was dedicated on Veterans Day in 1949, in a ceremony attended by Luis Muñoz Marín , the Governor of Puerto Rico, and Major General Herman Feldman, the Quartermaster of the US Army. The cemetery has become a shrine to the Puerto Rican veterans who have served in the United States military and those who perished while on active duty. In 1962,
198-543: The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph , the cemetery will be "a testament to extravagance, a piece of architectural monumentalism intended to reflect the glory of a resurgent Russia. Drawings show that the 132-acre (0.53 km) site will feature obelisks, golden statues of figures from Russia's past and friezes of workers in heroic poses. The cemetery will be richly adorned, using red and grey granite together with bronze". Goryaev died on 8 September 2013, just months after
220-643: The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery" to "perpetuate the memory of soldiers and other Russian citizens who died in the defense of the Motherland, and who had special merits to the state". Construction of the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery began on 15 March 2008, on a 55 hectare plot off the Ostashkovskoe highway, located near the villages of Sgonniki and Borisovka in Mytishchinsky District , Moscow Oblast , west of
242-647: The Kremlin Wall Necropolis, since it ruins the old style of the Moscow Kremlin . The concept of a national cemetery was resurrected in the early 1990s by a state-owned body called Mosproject-4, and the designer Alexander Taranin said he wanted to "create a minimalistic cemetery that gave a quiet and honest reflection of Russia". The cemetery was established in accordance with the Presidential Decree of 11 July 2001, number 829 "On
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#1732783071984264-507: The burial, relatives can choose only the color of the stone. Uniform requirements are also applied to the design of the memorial plate for the columbarium niche – it is made of bronze or black granite. An inscription with an honorary (military) rank (if any), a surname, a name, a patronymic, a date of birth and death is put on the memorial plate. 55°55′38″N 37°40′31″E / 55.92722°N 37.67528°E / 55.92722; 37.67528 National cemetery The following
286-403: The cemetery's completion. In 2015, monuments were planned to be installed on the first five graves. It is assumed that all the gravestones on the cemetery will be maintained in a uniform style and correspond to the three categories of burials. The contractor should have been selected by the competition, the documentation for which was developed by the specialists of the cemetery. The first contest
308-503: The city of Mytishchi . The cemetery is planned to be the main national cemetery of Russia for the next 200 years, and is predicted to house 40,000 graves. On 21 June 2013, the inaugural burial took place when the remains of an unknown Red Army soldier who died in Smolensk Oblast during World War II , and the complex was officially opened to the public the following day. On 30 August 2013, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow consecrated
330-496: The construction granite and marble were used. At the main entrance to the necropolis are large steles. The black cubes at the crossing symbolize the views of the Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War: the ground forces, the navy, the air force and the rear of the Armed Forces. The main central Alley is two kilometers long, along it are all architectural objects. The functional part consists of four pavilions, including
352-595: The end of 2005, had 44,722 interments. Until 2021, it was the only United States National Cemetery in Puerto Rico. A second United States National Cemetery was built in Morovis, Puerto Rico because the cemetery in Bayamón has reached its capacity. The land in which the cemetery is located was under the jurisdiction of the United States Navy since 1898, when Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the United States as
374-725: The monument "Tribulation" is established: the mother with the dying warrior son. Before the sculpture is a bowl of water, symbolizing sadness, in the center of the water mirror the Eternal fire burns. On both sides of the Mall are 15 special sites intended for burial of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Land plots for permanent graves have an area of 5 sq.m. – 2.5 × 2 meters. Only one person can be buried in one section and subsequently his spouse or spouse. With each burial of
396-412: The other side of the bridge there is a ritual zone, two mourning houses, decorated in a single Shchusev style. Funeral houses are rich in interior decoration in the form of mosaic panels. The first is decorated in a state-owned, powerful style, decorated with symbols in the form of Kremlin towers, a two-headed eagle. The second mourning house is decorated in a military style. At the end of the burial zone,
418-488: The perpetuation of memory, this fact apparently did not embarrass. All cancellations of the contest were terminated, along with a behind-the-scenes scandal, resulting in several individuals from the cemetery administration being found guilty and subsequently fired. Unique in the Russian monumental architecture and art ensemble is divided into four zones: entrance, production, ritual and burial area (including columbarium). For
440-549: The remains of those interred on all other five military cemeteries on the island were transferred there. The Puerto Rico National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 26, 1983, and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones on February 3, 2000. The Morovis National Cemetery , a second United States National Cemetery, was built in Morovis within
462-475: The underground memorial hall, a ritual store, a cafeteria and a public toilet. The bridge, constructed above the beam, symbolically linking life to death, continues with the Alley of Heroes. On it, tracing the history of Russia from antiquity to the present day, 24 bronze figures of soldiers are installed in the stylized form of six historical epochs: from Dmitry Donskoy's warriors to modern special forces soldiers. On
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#1732783071984484-462: Was to be held in September 2015, but was canceled. The Ministry of Defense appealed to the sculptors and pointed to the obvious shortcomings in the sketches of monuments described in the tender documentation. For example, it turned out that the bust of military commanders was cut off exactly on half of the epaulettes. Neither the developers of the documentation, nor their curators in the management of
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