The Brotherhood cemetery ( ua, Братське кладовище, crh, Qardaş mezarlığı) is an

Imperial Russian The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The ...

military cemetery in

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

. The Brotherhood cemetery was founded in 1854 as a temporary burial place for Russian soldiers and officers who were killed during the first siege of Sevastopol. Three burials were created according to order of admiral

Vladimir Kornilov Vice Admiral Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (; 13 February 1806 – 17 October 1854) was a Russian naval officer who took part in the Crimean War and is known for his battle against the Pervaz-ı Bahrî in what is considered the first battle ...

near the Northern fort of Sevastopol. Then the cemeteries were united because of severe casualties among the defenders of the besieged Russian city. It is approximated that there were buried from 100 000 to 127 000 of Russian military men.БРАТСКОЕ КЛАДБИЩЕ ЗАЩИТНИКОВ СЕВАСТОПОЛЯ 1854–1855 годов
The cemetery has 472 collective and 130 individual graves. The collective graves contain 50–100 or more bodies of soldiers. The individual graves contain bodies of officers. There were buried famous Russian military commanders: * Eduard Ivanovich Totleben, * Stepan Khrulyov, *

Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Горчако́в, pl, Michaił Dymitrowicz Gorczakow; – , Warsaw) was a Russian General of the Artillery from the Gorchakov family, who commanded the Ru ...

. In 1870 in the upper part of the cemetery hill it was built a pyramidal Orthodox Saint Nicholas church. The inner part of the church is covered with plates containing the names of Russian officers killed during the siege. The outer walls of the church contain plates with names of all regiments and military units who defended the city, with the information about dates and casualties in every unit. The cemetery hill served as a place for a command post of the 4th defence sector of the besieged Soviet troops during the second siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942). The cemetery has been severely bombarded and then turned into a battle place between the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

and

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troops. Saint Nicholas Church and the cemetery itself were partially destroyed. After the fighting the cemetery was expanded with the graves of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II actions and killed with the sinking of Soviet battleship Novorossiysk (1955).

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Севастополь. Братское кладбище участников первой Севастопольской обороны

Братское кладбище защитников Севастополя 1854–1855 годов – Севастополь
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