Baikove Cemetery ( uk, Байкове кладовище) is a historic cemetery memorial in
Holosiiv Raion
Holosiivskyi District ( uk, Голосіївський район, translit.: ''Holosiivs’kyi raion'') is an urban district of the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Holosiivskyi District was created during changing of administrative divis ...
of
Kyiv
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Kyi ...
,
Ukraine
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. It is a National Historic Landmark of Ukraine and is known as a necropolis of distinguished people. It was established in 1833. Among the buried, it includes
Leonid Kravchuk
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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...
Viacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil ( uk, В'ячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, ...
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Oles Honchar
Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar ( uk, Олесь Терентійович Гончар; 3 April 1918 – 12 December 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukraini ...
Danylo Lyder
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Olena Pchilka
Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka ( uk, Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo ...
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Mykhailo Starytsky
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Ostap Vyshnya
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Ivan Mykolaychuk
Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk ( uk, Іван Васильович Миколайчук) (15 June 1941, Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer.
He is best known for playing the Hutsul I ...
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Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky, russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Щерби́цкий; ''Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky'', (17 February 1918 — 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He was First Secr ...
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 w ...
and
Valeri Lobanovsky
Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi ( uk, Вале́рій Васи́льович Лобано́вський ; russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Лобано́вский; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Ukrainian football playe ...
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 intelligentsia, middle and
upper class
Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power. According to this view, the upper class is gen ...
es. Many of the headstones became pieces of monumental art. Also after the
Ukrainian independence
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the cemetery has remained the most prestigious burial ground in the city. 87 are on the
List of national landmarks of cultural heritage in Kyiv
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Landmarks of archaeology
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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 Lesya Ukrainka'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
Valeriy Vasylyovych Lobanovskyi ( uk, Вале́рій Васи́льович Лобано́вський ; russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Лобано́вский; 6 January 1939 – 13 May 2002) was а Ukrainian football playe ...
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
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