VELIKIE LUKI cemetery (c)* Execution & burial site

Card

№60-01

Date of burial

1918-1919

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Address

Pskov Region, Velikie Luki, Pushkin Street

Access in a populated area

Public transport

On foot

Visiting Hours or Restrictions

Visiting hours

Comments

accessible when cemetery is open.

Type of burial

Secret interment of executed

Current use

Cultural and/or educational purposes

Ceremonial events

Presence of memorials, etc.

Protected status

Not protected

Background

In 1918-1919, one place where hostages sentenced by the Revolutionary Tribunal were shot and buried was the Kazanskoe cemetery in Velikie Luki. The dead were buried in common graves on the southwest side of the graveyard. Since the early 1990s, requiem masses for the victims of the “Red Terror” are periodically conducted there.

Books of Remembrance

We shall not forget: A Book in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression (15 vols. 1996-2004) contains biographical entries on 28,000 who were shot or sent to the Gulag. The Memorial online database (2021) contains the names of 69 who were shot in the Pskov Region in 1918-1919.

Ceremonies

Date	Nature of ceremonies	Organiser or responsible person	Participants	Frequency
nk	Commemorative Services	nk	nk	From time to time

Nature of area requiring preservation

State of burials	Area	Boundaries	Other sites in same area
Have not survived	not determined	not delineated	Church of the Kazan Mother of God, architectural monument of federal importance

Administrative responsibility and ownership, informal responsibility for the site

On land under the control of the Velikie Luki city administration

Sources and bibliography

[ Original texts & hyperlinks ]

“Historian V. Orlov leads a tour of sites linked to the victims of political repression”, VLuki.ru portal [retrieved, 28 May 2022]