Donetskoe More Cemetery
{{Short description|Cemetery in Leninskyi District, Ukraine}}
The Donetskoe More Cemetery is a cemetery in Leninskyi District, Donetsk. It is named after the nearby Donetskoe More reservoir. It covers an area of 37 hectares.{{Cite web |title=Кладбища "Мушкетово" и "Донецкое море" в Донецке |url=https://mitzvatemet.com/en/index.php?route=information/univernews&univernews_id=85 |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=mitzvatemet.com}}
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Name
The Donetskoe More Cemetery is named after the nearby {{Interlanguage link|Donetskoe More reservoir|ru|Донецкое море (водохранилище)}}, an artificial lake in Donetsk. It is the largest reservoir in the Leninskyi District.
Cemetery
The cemetery is located in the Leninskyi District, Donetsk and has an area of 37 hectares. It was made in 1960. The site is owned by the Jewish community.
The cemetery is home to over 280 burials, of them over 100 do not contain a birth or death date.{{Cite web |title=Кладбища "Мушкетово" и "Донецкое море" в Донецке |url=https://mitzvatemet.com/en/index.php?route=information/univernews&univernews_id=85 |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=mitzvatemet.com}} Some of the people buried in the cemetery are soldiers who died during the Soviet-Afghan war and victims of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Список памятников истории и культуры города Донецка, взятых на государственный учет до 2014 года |url=http://gorod-donetsk.com/drugie-dokumenty/16881-spisok-pamyatnikov-istorii-i-kultury-goroda-donetska-vzyatykh-na-gosudarstvennyj-uchet-do-2014-goda |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820203352/http://gorod-donetsk.com/drugie-dokumenty/16881-spisok-pamyatnikov-istorii-i-kultury-goroda-donetska-vzyatykh-na-gosudarstvennyj-uchet-do-2014-goda |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 20, 2023 |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=gorod-donetsk.com |language=ru-ru}}
The cemetery was vandalized by four neo-Nazis in 2004, who destroyed 21 gravestones.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1293uRpJ8yIC&q=donetske+more&pg=PA522 |title=Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2005, April 2006, 109-2 Joint Committee Print, * |date=2006 |language=en}}
Notable interments
- Arsen Pavlov (2 February 1983 – 16 October 2016){{Cite web |date=2018-09-02 |title=Захарченко с почестями похоронили на кладбище "Донецкое море" - Газета.Ru {{!}} Новости |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2018/09/02/n_11983387.shtml |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=Газета.Ru |language=ru}}
- Mikhail Tolstykh (19 July 1980 – 8 February 2017){{Cite web |date=2017-02-10 |title=Somali unit commander Mikhail Tolstykh to be buried next to Arsen Pavlov |url=https://dan-news.ru/en/society/87700/?lang=en |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=dan-news.ru |language=en}}
- Alexander Zakharchenko (26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018), Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic{{Cite web |title=Они тоже гостили на земле... Толстых Михаил Сергеевич (Гиви) (1980-2017) |url=http://nec.m-necropol.ru/givi.html |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=nec.m-necropol.ru}}
- Vladimir Zhoga (26 May 1993 – 5 March 2022){{Cite web |title=IMAGO. |url=https://www.imago-images.com/st/0152622702 |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=www.imago-images.com}}
- Olga Kachura (12 May 1970 – 29 July 2022){{Cite web |date=2022-08-04 |title=Ольгу Качуру похоронили на кладбище "Донецкое море" |url=https://aif.ru/incidents/olgu_kachuru_pohoronili_na_kladbishche_doneckoe_more |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=AiF |language=ru}}