Radishchevskoye Kladbishche

The cemetery is good, every day I went there and thought how good it was for these free people. Now I am one of them

Соседи не шумные, земля не сырая

There is a second name - Maratovskaya cemetery. Radishchevskaya cemetery - one of the oldest in Irkutsk on it are buried at least one hundred and fifty thousand Irkutsk. Radischevskoe cemetery appeared at the beginning of the XX century. In 1901, for burial of residents of the Znamensky and Crafts-Slobodsky suburbs of Irkutsk outside the city, 27.6 thousand sq. sazhens (12 ha). Part of this area took a military cemetery. In the future, the territory of the Radischevsky cemetery expanded. In 1979, it reached the area of ​​66.7 hectares. In 2011, an Orthodox cross was installed at a height of 16 meters near the entrance to the Radishchevskoye cemetery, which was to be the first building of the future Orthodox complex, which included the construction of a chapel, and then an Orthodox church. In 1918-1920-ies, Irkutsk housed the Czechoslovak Corps, who fought on the side of Kolchak's troops. The legionnaires of the Czechoslovak Corps were buried at the Radischevsky cemetery. During the Great Patriotic War, soldiers who died in military hospital No. 325 were buried in the Radischevsky cemetery. He was the head hospital of the Trans-Baikal Military District. Here for medical treatment received in the majority of the military spare parts so-called local garrison - they were not parties to the hostilities. A total of 147 soldiers were buried. In 2014, a memorial to participants of the Great Patriotic War was opened at the entrance to the cemetery. In total, over 500 veterans were buried in the cemetery. On Radischevskaya cemetery dormant remains of 406 Japanese prisoners of war who died after the Second World War. In March 2001, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited the cemetery. In August 2003, the remains of 333 Japanese soldiers were exhumed, cremated and shipped to Japan. On August 27, 2015, a Japanese delegation held a memorial ceremony in the cemetery