Brethren Cemetery (Rostov-on-Don)

The Brethren Cemetery (Братское кладбище) is a cemetery at Oktyabrskiy District of the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

History
The cemetery, on the outskirts of the city, was inititllay considered to be a place for burial of the poor, here there were mostly brethren graves. So the cemetery's name derived from here. Later, a section for deceased soldiers and officers appeared at the cemetery, which mostly hasn't survived until our days.

The cemetery has monuments dedicated to soldiers of Rostov-on-Don People's Militia Regiment, who died in November 1941 and a monument in honor of soldiers the 230st NKVD Regiment who also died in November 1941 while defending Rostov-on-Don from invading German forces. From 1998 it is permitted to bury relatives of the ones already buried at the territory of the cemetery.

Famous people buried at the Brethren Cemetery

 * Borys Dumenko – a commander of the Red Army
 * Leonid Eberg – an architect who worked in Rostov-on-Don
 * Alexander Borchaninov – a revolutionary and a statesman