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Baikove Cemetery

Coordinates: 50°25.00′N 30°30.35′E / 50.41667°N 30.50583°E / 50.41667; 30.50583
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Baikove Cemetery
Main entrance to Baikove Cemetery
Map showing the location of Baikove Cemetery
Map showing the location of Baikove Cemetery
LocationKiev, Ukraine
Coordinates50°25.00′N 30°30.35′E / 50.41667°N 30.50583°E / 50.41667; 30.50583
Area72.47 ha (179.1 acres)
Established1833
Named forGeneral Sergei Baikov

Baikove Cemetery (Ukrainian: Байкове кладовище) is an historic cemetery memorial in Holosiiv Raion of Kiev, Ukraine. 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 Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Lesya Ukrainka, Slava Stetsko, Viacheslav Chornovil, Oles Honchar, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Olena Pchilka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Oleksandr Bilash, Ostap Vyshnya, Ivan Mykolaychuk, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Leonid Telyatnikov, Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko, Oleg Antonov and Valeri Lobanovsky.

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 Kiev's intelligentsia, middle and upper classes. Many of the headstones became pieces of monumental art. Also after the Ukrainian independence the cemetery has remained the most prestigious burial ground in the city. There 87 National Landmarks of History.

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.

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  • Ruta Malikenaite (ed): Touring Kyiv. Guidebook, p.153–157 (Baltija Druk 2002).
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