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The New Cemetery ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Ново гробље, Novo groblje) is a
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complex in
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,
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, with a distinct history. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian cemetery in Belgrade and as the first architecturally and urbanistically planned cemetery in Serbia. In addition to graves of ordinary citizens, the cemetery complex also includes special sections: military graves from Serbian-Ottoman War (1876–1877), Serbo-Bulgarian War,
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and
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, the Alley of the Greats and the Alley of Distinguished Citizens, where some of the most important persons in the
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are buried. Two Jewish cemeteries (a Sephardic and an Ashkenazi one) are located adjacent to the New Cemetery, but are administrated separately.


Location

The cemetery is located along the ''Ruzveltova'' (official seat, at No. 50) and ''Mije Kovačevića'' streets, which divide it in two sections, left or western, which is in the municipality of Palilula and right or eastern, which is in the municipality of Zvezdara. Larger, eastern section is bordered by the streets of ''Mije Kovačevića'' on the north, ''Severni bulevar'' on the east and ''Svetog Nikole'' on the south. North of this section are the neighborhoods of Bogoslovija and Stara Karaburma, Zvezdara II is on the east, while Slavujev Venac and Bulbulder are on the south. Smaller, western section is marked by the streets ''Čarlija Čaplina'' (northeast) and ''Preradovićeva'' (southwest). It is situated next to the neighborhood of Hadžipopovac.


History

The first burials on the cemeteries that still exist today in the Belgrade's territory, were held in
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, at the end of the 18th century. However, the New Cemetery was the first which has been planned and projected specifically for this purpose, with all the infrastructure needed, so it is today considered to be the oldest of Belgrade's cemeteries. In 1886–2017 period, 340,000 people were buried. As the city expanded, Belgrade's old cemetery at Tašmajdan became inadequate. On the one side, it became too small for the city's main graveyard. On the other, once projected to be on the outskirts of the city, as Belgrade grew, Tašmajdan practically became downtown and close to the
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. The first official initiative for the removal of the cemetery came in 1871 from Mihailo Jovanović,
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of Belgrade. As the city was in the financial crisis at the time and wasn't able to buy such a large lot for the new cemetery,
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Vladan Đorđević donated a patch of his land to the city for the purpose of establishing a new cemetery. In the next decades, the area, including the graveyard itself was known as Vladanovac (after the mayor), but gradually was replaced with the name ''New Cemetery''. Mayors Živko Karabiberović and Mijailo Bogićević also worked on the establishment of the cemetery. The cemetery was charted in the city plans in 1884 but the citizens originally disapproved the new location, as it was distant from downtown, so a horse-operated tram line was established, ''
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-New Cemetery''. The adaptation of the lot was finished on 16 August 1886 and the first person was buried next day. It was Dragutin Dimić, son of the cemetery gardener Veljko Dimić. The graveyard originally covered , but by 2017 grew to . The reinterment of the remains from the Tašmajdan dragged on for the several decades, being finished only in 1927. First memorial monument was built in 1907, when remains of the Serbian soldiers who died in wars against the Turks and Bulgarians in the 19th century were reinterred from the Tašmajdan. During the bombardment of Belgrade in the
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, cemetery was damaged in 1915. In the
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, seven military graveyards were also formed together with the Memorial Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade 1914–1918.


After 1945

Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators, for the soldiers who died in 1944, extension across the Ruzveltova street to the west, was built in 1954. In 1959, a memorial cemetery for all the fallen fighters of the
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was built by the architects Bogdan Bogdanović and Svetislav Ličina. Ličina also projected the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in 1965. In 1963, the crematory was opened. Though the first initiative for the crematory to be built came in 1904 from the "Oganj" society, and Minister for Public Health Čedomir Mihajlović approved construction in 1928, due to the lack of space, funds and opposition of the public, it took decades to open one. It is on the spot where the old Ashkenazi chapel was located. In 1964, the first year the crematory was operational, there were only 6 cremations, 5 of which were organized for the foreign citizens. By the 1983 decision of the
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, the New Cemetery was declared as the cultural monument of great importance. Since 2004 it is member of the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe and since 2018 of the European Cemeteries Route.


The Main (Eastern) portion

The main part of the complex, on the right side of the Ruzveltova street, consists of a small Ashkenazi Jewish cemetery and much larger Christian cemetery. The Christian cemetery contains graves of ordinary citizens, several military graveyards, and four memorial sections containing the graves of important persons: the Arcades, the Alley of the Greats, the Alley of Distinguished Citizens, and the Alley of People's Heroes. Among the headstones, there are 1,597 which are works of art by 130 Serbian sculptors, thus the cemetery is considered as the "museum in the open". Artists who contributed to this "museum" with their works include
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, Đorđe Jovanović, Toma Rosandić,
Sreten Stojanović Sreten Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Стојановић; 2 February 1898 – 29 October 1960) was a Serbian sculptor, university professor and art critic. His artistic individuality was best observed in portraits made of various materials. ...
, , Nebojša Mitrić, Risto Stijović, Živojin Lukić, Simeon Roksandić, , Olga Jevrić, Oto Logo, Petar Ubavkić, Lojze Dolinar, Stevan Bodnarov and . Some of the specific, important works include: * A statue of the girl in the crinoline dress on the parcel of merchant and benefactor Joca Jovanović Šapčanin; work of Italian sculptor Achille Canessa. * The Muses of literature and painting on the family tomb of Matija Ban, his daughter Poleksija Todorović and her husband Stevan Todorović. * The oldest reliefs in the cemetery are done by Đorđe Jovanović for the tomb of Andra Nikolić. Some of the reliefs represent Nikolić's four younger children, who all died of
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. A broken column was sculptured on the tomb itself, marking the death of Dušan, Nikolić's older son who survived through infancy but was killed in World War I, on the Suvobor mountain during the Battle of Kolubara in 1914.


Church of Saint Nicholas

The newly developed cemetery had no chapel or church, so by the endowment of Draginja and Stanojlo Petrović, a church dedicated to
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, projected by the architect
Svetozar Ivačković Svetozar Ivačković (Serbian language, Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Ивачковић) (December 10, 1844 – January 30, 1924) was a distinguished post-Romanticism, Romantic Serbs, Serbian architect; the most famous representative of the f ...
was built in 1893. The
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was painted by
Stevan Todorović Stevan Todorović ( sr-cyr, Стеван Тодоровић; Novi Sad, 1832–Belgrade, 1925) was a Serbian painter and the founder of modern fencing and Sokol movement in Yugoslavia. Biography Born in Novi Sad, Todorović moved in 1839 to Szeg ...
and his wife Poleksija. The
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are a work of Andrea Domenico, on the draft by Petar Ranosović. The Petrović couple is buried in the church's crypt, with their 5-year-old son Petar. For a long time, the church also served for the parochial services, until the Church of Saint Lazar was built in the neighborhood of Bulbulder. In that period, weddings and baptisms were also performed in the church, while the public fairs were held in front of it.


Military graveyards

The oldest memorial at Novo groblje complex is the Serbian soldiers'
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built in 1907 which contains remains of the soldiers of Serbian-Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) and Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885) that were transferred from Tašmajdan cemetery.New Cemetery
, Turistički vodič kroz Beograd
Important part of the complex are the military graveyards with the remains of soldiers from the
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and
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. It contains remains of Serbian and other Allied soldiers, as well as
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soldiers. Beside the Serbian ossuary ( Memorial Ossuary to the Defenders of Belgrade), there are separate French,
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,
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The Russian Military Graveyard contains graves of over 3,000 Russian
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s who arrived to Yugoslavia after the 1917
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and the ensuing
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. They include priests, soldiers and some important names in science and culture, who fled
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rule. At the edge of the Russian graveyard are the monumental "Russian Glory" memorial ossuary and the ''Iverskaya'' chapel. The Chapel was designed in 1931 by Valery Vladimirovich Stashevsky, a replica of the original chapel in
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which the Bolsheviks demolished that same year. There is also a
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) graveyard from World War II. The
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maintain the Commonwealth graves. The ''Alley of the People's Heroes'' is located around the Serbian ossuary. It contains graves of 312 persons, 118 of whom were the People's Heroes of Yugoslavia. The complex also includes graveyards of the victims of
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Arcades

Though this section is next to the wall, it was originally envisioned as a series of arches ("arcades"). Eventually, arcades remained only as ornamental and architectural part of the outer wall of the cemetery. The section was built in 1926–1927, concurrently with the Alley of the Greats. It contains tombs of important public figures and wealthier citizens, as the lots in this section were not given to the commoners. Here are the graves of Milenko Vesnić (1863–1921), politician and diplomat, Nikola Pašić (1844–1926), politician, Janko Vukotić (1866–1927), general and politician,
Sreten Stojanović Sreten Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Стојановић; 2 February 1898 – 29 October 1960) was a Serbian sculptor, university professor and art critic. His artistic individuality was best observed in portraits made of various materials. ...
(1898–1960), sculptor, Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933–2014), writer.


Alley of the Greats

Alley of the Greats ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Алеја великана, Aleja velikana) was created in the 19th century with a transfer of the remain of several important persons from the Tašmajdan Cemetery to the New Cemetery. As an architectural unit, it was formed in 1926–1927 as the first lot specifically designed for the nationally important people. It contains 25 tombs and 3 chapels with 113 buried people by 2017. Some of the people buried at the Alley of the Greats are: * Kornelije Stanković (1831–1865), composer * Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac (1789–1878), donator * Stevan Vladislav Kaćanski (1829–90), poet * Milan Kujundžić Aberdar (1842–93), philosopher and politician * Velimir Mihailo Teodorović (1849–98), benefactor and out-of-wedlock son of Prince
Mihailo Obrenović Mihailo ( sr-cyr, Михаило) is a South Slavic masculine given name. It is a variant of the Hebrew name ''Michael'', and its cognates include Mihajlo and Mijailo. Common as a given name among Serbs, it is an uncommon surname. Notable peopl ...
*
Dimitrije Tucović Dimitrije "Mita" Tucović ( sr-Cyrl, Димитрије Туцовић, ; 13 May 1881 – November 1914) was a Serbian theorist of the socialist movement, politician, writer and publisher. He was founder of the Serbian Social Democratic Par ...
(1881–1914), socialist leader *
Petar Kočić Petar Kočić ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Кочић; 29 June 1877 – 27 August 1916) was a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Serb writer, activist and politician. Born in rural northwestern Bosnia (region), Bosnia in the final days of Ot ...
(1877–1916), writer * Radomir Putnik (1847–1917), fieldmarshal * Živojin Mišić (1855–1921), fieldmarshal * Kosta Hristić (1852–1927), diplomat and writer *
Jovan Cvijić Jovan Cvijić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Цвијић, ; 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbs, Serbian geographer, Ethnology, ethnologist, university professor and academic. He was the president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, S ...
(1865–1927), geographer * Miloš Vasić (1859–1935), general and weapons constructor *
Branislav Nušić Branislav Nušić ( sr-Cyrl, Бранислав Нушић, ;  – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of Modern Rhetoric, modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil ...
(1864–1938), comedy playwright * Jovan Popović (1905–1952), writer and revolutionary * Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958), philosopher and politician * Stevan Hristić (1885–1958), composer * Milunka Savić (1892–1973), female soldier Kolarac, Kaćanski and Aberdar were reinterred from the old Tašmajdan cemetery. Jovanović was exhumed from his London grave and reinterred in 2011. Savić was reinterred from her family tomb on the cemetery in 2013, while the remains of Tucović were moved from the Slavija Square in December 2016, during the square's reconstruction. The three chapels belong to Teodorović, the family of Stevan Hristić and the .


Alley of Distinguished Citizens

The ''Alley of Distinguished Citizens'' ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Алеја заслужних грађана, Aleja zaslužnih građana) was created in 1965, and it has since been used for the burials of distinguished and important citizens. Prior to the burial, a special procedure must be completed and approval from the City Assembly of
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and
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must be granted. It contains single and group tombs of important writers, artists, actors, singers, generals, people's heroes and other important persons. It occupies the central part of the cemetery. Though the first deceased were transferred to the Alley from other cemeteries starting in 1965, the first person buried directly in the Alley was Branko Jevremović, judge of the Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia, on 28 April 1969. On average, 16 persons per year were buried, but the authorities lifted this number in the late 2010s (23 in 2019, 25 in 2020), including more people from the entertainment industry and those close to the ruling establishment, which caused some protests. By 2021, 800 people were buried in total, leaving only 30 empty lots. In March 2021, expansion of the alley with further 95 tombs and 104 urn slots was announced, but also the construction of another alley at the New Bežanija Cemetery, under the name of Alley of the Distinguished Belgraders. Some of the people buried at the Alley of Distinguished Citizens are: *
Paja Jovanović Pavle "Paja" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Павле "Паја" Јовановић; ; 16 June 1859 – 30 November 1957) was a Serbian realist painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: '' The Wounded Montenegrin'' (1882), '' Decorating of the ...
(1859–1957), painter. The urn with his ashes was transferred here after his wife's death. * Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958), historian, lawyer, literary critic and politician *
Milo Milunović Milo Milunović (Cyrillic: Мило Милуновић; Born 6 August 1897 – 11 February 1967) was a Montenegrin painter. He dabbled in both Impressionism and Cubism. Biography Milunović was born in Cetinje, Montenegro, but was educated in S ...
(1897–1967), painter * Radivoj Korać (1938–1969), basketball player * Bojan Stupica (1910–1970), theater and film director *
Petar Lubarda Petar Lubarda (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Лубарда); 27 July 1907 – 13 February 1974) was a Serbian painter. Biography He was born in Ljubotinj, near Cetinje, Principality of Montenegro. Lubarda's father was an officer of the Royal Y ...
(1907–1974), painter *
Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1961. His writ ...
(1892–1975), writer and
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winner * Miloš Crnjanski (1893–1977), poet, author, and a diplomat *
Ivan Tabaković Ivan Tabaković (10 December 1898, Arad – 27 June 1977, Belgrade) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Serbian painter. Biography Tabaković was born in Arad, then part of the Habsburg Empire, in 1898, a son of noted Serbian architect Milan T ...
(1898–1977), painter * Ljubinka Bobić (1897–1978), actress *
Stojan Aralica Stojan Aralica (b. Škare, Lika, 24 December 1883 – d. Belgrade, Serbia, 4 February 1980) was a Serbian Impressionist painter and academic. Biography The life of Stojan Aralica can be followed through his studies in Munich (1909–1914), a br ...
(1883–1980), painter * Meša Selimović (1910–1982), writer * Dušan Radović (1922–1984), journalist and writer *
Branko Ćopić Branko Ćopić ( sr-Cyrl, Бранко Ћопић, ; 1 January 1915 – 26 March 1984) was a Yugoslav writer. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, often set during World War ...
(1915–1984), writer * Zoran Radmilović (1933–1985), actor * Matija Vuković (1925–1985), sculptor * Kosta Nađ (1911–1986), Yugoslav Partisan Army general * Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), writer * Oskar Davičo (1909–1989), writer * Stjepan Bobek (1923–2010), footballer * Rrahman Morina (1943–1990), communist politician *
Miodrag Bulatović Miodrag Bulatović ( sr-Cyrl, Миодраг Булатовић; 20 February 1930 – 15 March 1991) was a writer, novelist, journalist and playwright. Biography Bulatović began in 1956 with a book of short stories, ''Djavoli dolaze'' ("The Dev ...
(1930–1991), writer * Vasko Popa (1922–1991), poet *
Borislav Pekić Borislav Pekić ( sr-Cyrl, Борислав Пекић, ; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian writer and political activist. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From ...
(1930–1992), writer *
Jovan Rašković Jovan Rašković ( sr-cyr, Јован Рашковић, ; 5 July 1929 – 28 July 1992) was a Serbs of Croatia, Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician. Early life Rašković was born in Knin in 1929. During World War II in Yugoslavia ...
(1929–1992), psychiatrist and politician *
Koča Popović Konstantin "Koča" Popović ( sr-cyrl, Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Serbia, Serbian and Yugoslavs, Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and D ...
(1908–1992), Partisan Army general, Chiefs of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, Foreign Minister, Vice President of Yugoslavia * Miloš Žutić (1939–1993), actor * Rahela Ferari (1911–1994), actress * Mija Aleksić, (1923–1995), actor * Milić od Mačve (1934–2000), painter * Radmila Savićević (1926–2001), actress *
Zoran Đinđić Zoran Đinđić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Ђинђић, ; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician and philosopher who served as the Prime Minister of Serbia, prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until Assassination of Zoran Đinđić, ...
(1952–2003),
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* Bata Paskaljević (1923–2004), actor *
Stevo Žigon Štefan "Stevo" Žigon ( sr-cyr, Стево Жигон; 8 December 1926 – 28 December 2005) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav actor, theatre director, and writer. Biography His origins were primarily Italian. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then ...
(1926–2005), actor and director *
Ljuba Tadić Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Љуба Тадић; 31 May 1929 – 28 October 2005) was a Yugoslav actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. Biography He made his scr ...
(1929–2005), actor * Žika Mitrović (1921–2005), movie director and screenwriter *
Nikola Ljubičić Nikola Ljubičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Љубичић; 4 April 1916 – 13 April 2005) was the President of the Presidency of Serbia (1982–1984), a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1984–19 ...
(1916–2005), General of the Army, Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia,
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* Dragan Lukić (1928–2006), poet *
Nenad Bogdanović Nenad Bogdanović ( sr-cyr, Ненад Богдановић, ; 12 May 1954 – 27 September 2007) was a Serbian politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2004 to 2007. Education and career Bogdanović was born on 12 May 1954. He comple ...
(1954–2007),
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* Mira Alečković (1924–2008), poet * Olja Ivanjicki (1931–2009), painter and sculptor * Mladen Srbinović (1925–2009), painter * Milorad Pavić (1929–2009), writer and literary historian * Oskar Danon (1913–2009), composer and conductor * Rade Marković (1921–2010), actor * Momo Kapor (1937–2010), writer and painter * Voki Kostić (1931–2010), composer * Petar Kralj (1941–2011), actor * Branislav Crnčević (1933–2011), writer and politician * Olivera Marković (1925–2011), actress * Milorad Bata Mihailović (1923–2011), painter *
Svetozar Gligorić Svetozar Gligorić ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Глигорић; 2 February 1923 – 14 August 2012) was a Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best ...
(1923–2012), chess player * Jelena Genčić (1936–2013), tennis and handball player and coach * Ružica Sokić (1934–2013), actress * Velimir Bata Živojinović (1933–2016), actor (in 2020 reinterred to his birthplace, Koraćica) *
Dragan Nikolić Dragoslav "Dragan" Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Драгослав Драган Николић, ; 20 August 1943 – 11 March 2016) was a Serbian and Yugoslav actor. Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in the film ' ...
(1943–2016), actor *
Nebojša Glogovac Nebojša "Glogi" Glogovac ( sr-Cyrl, Небојша Глоговац; 30 August 19699 February 2018) was a Serbian actor, notable for performances in theater, television actor, television and film actor, film. He was a member of the Children's ...
(1969–2018), actor * Milena Dravić (1940–2018), actress * Šaban Šaulić (1951–2019), singer * Isidora Bjelica (1966–2020), writer * Džej Ramadanovski (1964–2020), singer * Vlasta Velisavljević (1926–2021), actor * Sanja Ilić (1951–2021), musician and composer * Đorđe Marjanović (1931–2021), singer * Bora Ivkov (1933–2022), chess player * Miodrag Kostić (1959–2024), businessman


Family tombs

Important people from Serbian history, culture and science have been buried in their individual or family tombs. They include: * Ilija Čarapić (1792–1844), mayor of Belgrade * Uzun-Mirko Apostolović (1782–1868), military commander * Ilija Garašanin (1812–1874), politician *
Đura Jakšić Georgije "Đura" Jakšić (; 27 July 1832 – 16 November 1878) was a Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist and Bohemianism, bohemian. Biography Đura Jakšić was born as Georgije Jakšić in Srpska Crnja, Austrian Empire (present-day Serbi ...
(1832–1878), poet and painter * Katarina Ivanović (1811–1882), painter * Jevrem Grujić (1826–1895), politician * Jovan Ristić (1831–1899), politician * Matija Ban (1818–1903), author and diplomat *
Nadežda Petrović Nadežda Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Надежда Петровић; 11/12 October 1873 – 3 April 1915) was a Serbian painter and one of the women war photography pioneers in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous expressionist and fauvis ...
(1873–1915), painter * Andra Nikolić (1853–1918), academic and politician *
Pavle Jurišić Šturm Pavle Jurišić Šturm KCMG ( sr-cyr, Павле Јуришић Штурм; 8 August 1848 – 13 January 1922), born Paulus Eugen Sturm, was a Serbian general of Sorbian origin, best known for commanding the Serbian 3rd Army in World War I. ...
(1848–1922), general *
Stevan Todorović Stevan Todorović ( sr-cyr, Стеван Тодоровић; Novi Sad, 1832–Belgrade, 1925) was a Serbian painter and the founder of modern fencing and Sokol movement in Yugoslavia. Biography Born in Novi Sad, Todorović moved in 1839 to Szeg ...
(1832–1925), painter * Petar Bojović (1858–1945), fieldmarshal * Stanislav Vinaver (1891–1955), author * Aleksandar Deroko (1894–1988), architect * Vladeta Jerotić (1924–2018), psychiatrist


Ashkenazi Jewish cemetery

Adjacent to the main complex of the New Cemetery, there is a small Jewish
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cemetery. It is located directly across the street from the larger
Sephardic Jewish Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
Cemetery. It is known for its sculptures, including the "Kiss of death" by Toma Rosandić, on the tomb of Jakov and Ruža Klopfer. The Ashkenazi cemetery, founded in 1876, is closed for further expansion as there is no room left.


The Western portion

This part of the complex consists of a memorial military graveyard and a Sephardic Jewish cemetery, on the left side of the ''Ruzveltova'' street.


Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators

During the Belgrade Offensive, in which the Partisans and the
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expelled occupying Germans from Belgrade on 20 October 1944, 24 Red Army tank crewmen were killed. On 23 October 1944, a funeral procession consisting of 24 tanks moved from the Slavija Square to the Republic Square, where the crewmen were buried. In 1954 the crypt and the monument, so as the remains of all the other soldiers, were moved to the Belgrade New Cemetery and the Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators has been formed. Officially opened on 20 October 1954, to mark the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade, the design of the complex became a blueprint for numerous other memorial sites in Yugoslavia. Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators (Гробље ослободилаца Београда / Groblje oslobodilaca Beograda), though part of the cemetery complex, is located on the other (western) side of the street, across from the main part of the Belgrade New Cemetery. It contains graves of 2,944 National Liberation Army soldiers and 961
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soldiers and the
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of 1,381 National Liberation Army soldiers and 711 Red Army soldiers who died during the Belgrade Offensive. The cemetery includes Liberators of Belgrade memorial with the monumental gates covered in
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s by sculptor Rade Stanković and the "Red Army Soldier" sculpture by Antun Augustinčić. Stanković also sculptured a statue of Partisan holding a gun in front of the memorial, named "Combatant on eternal watch". The complex was the first memorial complex built in Belgrade after World War II. It was designed by architect Branko Bon and horticultural engineer Aleksandar Krstić. In its own right, the Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators was declared a cultural monument in 1987. The cemetery was partially renovated in 2019, celebrating 75 years of World War II liberation. A three-colored decorative lights were placed, white, blue and red, in the colors of both Serbian and Russian flags. The colorful lights on the cemetery of the killed soldiers wasn't received well by the public. During his visit to Belgrade in February 2020, Russian Minister of Defence
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brought a pot of Russian earth from
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, which was poured at the location of the Eternal Flame, also marking the beginning of its construction. The sculptural-architectural composition is work of the Russian sculptor Andrey Tyrtyshnikov. It is the second memorial named Eternal Flame in Belgrade, after the 2000 memorial erected in Staro Sajmište. Opening was planned for 26 March, during the visit of the Russian foreign minister
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to Serbia. This was all postponed due to the
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. In September 2020 it was announced that the memorial will be opened by the end of the year. On 14 December 2020, the flame was lit from the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow and transported to Belgrade by the Russian Defence ministry's plane. It was lit the next day, in the presence of Serbian president
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and minister Lavrov.


Sephardic Jewish cemetery

Next to the Cemetery of Liberators is the
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ish
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cemetery with the remains of Jewish soldiers who died in the Balkan Wars and World War I, ossuary of Jewish refugees from
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and the Memorial to the
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victims and Jewish soldiers died in World War II by the architect Bogdan Bogdanović. It is one of two Jewish cemeteries in Belgrade which is cared for by the
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commission. The original Sephardic cemetery was established in 1888, further down the ''Dalmatinska'' Street. In 1925 it was moved across the New Cemetery, on the lot owned by Đorđe Kurtović, a merchant from
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, who sold it to the Jewish community. Today it covers and has over 4,000 tombstones. In July 2019, city decided to expand the cemetery as it became inadequate long time ago. The area of the cemetery will be enlarged more than a double, with additional . The cemetery is divided by the central pathway with an avenue of pines. Close to the entrance is the impressive monument to dead soldiers from the 1912–1919 wars, erected in 1927. Officially named "Monument to the fallen warriors for the salvation, freedom and unification of the homeland", it has inscribed 132 names of the Serbian Jewish soldiers. The monument combines Serbian (two headed eagle, fire-steels, lyrics by Njegoš), Jewish (Star of David) and military symbols (rifle, sabre, '' šajkača''). In Jewish tradition, the pebbles have been placed next to the soldier's names. The stone-made Holocaust memorial which commemorates Jewish victims from 1941 to 1945 is at the end of the path. More specifically, it is dedicated to the 1941 execution of the Austrian Jews in the Zasavica bog in western Serbia. The access paths to the memorial are made from the remains of the Jewish houses demolished during the bombings of Belgrade and occupation in World War II. Though the monument was sculptured by Bogdanović in 1952 and it is not that old, its exact symbolism is unknown. There are three explanations: 1) two wings represent the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic Jews while the space between with the menorah symbolizes the parting of the
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by
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and road to freedom; 2) tablets with 10 commands; 3) hands on one wing represent the
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while the pitcher on another represents the
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. Within the memorial are the ossuary with 197 skeletons and the urn with the remains of Bogdanović, upon his wish even though he was not Jewish, which was approved by the Serbian Jewish community. Other monuments include the one above the joint tomb of the children died from the
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during the Interbellum and the sarcophagi-shaped memorial with the remains of 13 rabbis and teachers reinterred from the old cemetery in the Dalmatinska Street in 1928. There is also a monument to the ill-fated 1939–1941 Kladovo transport. It was erected in 1959 on a design by Andrija Mešulam, after 800 bodies of the victims were collected and reinterred here. Other notable feature is the tomb of the Buli family (, banker and politician; Hugo Buli, who brought football to Serbia. He is not buried in the tomb as he was killed in a gas van and thrown out of it on an unknown location). A Holocaust victim, Avram S. Lević (1869–1941), who saved and protected the
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in World War I, is also buried here. There is also a genizah, a "grave for the books", built in 1928. The monument is ornamented with an open scroll of
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and books made of stone.


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