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Arskoe cemetery- the central active necropolis of Kazan. The graveyard is located on the territory of the Vakhitovsky district. According to historical information, the cemetery was formed in the second half of XVIII century. The first burials at the necropolis date back to 1774 g., when the participants in the storming of Kazan Posad and the Kremlin, which happened at that time, were buried here. Then the churchyard was called Kurtinsky.
Church at the Arskoe cemetery in Kazan
On the territory of the Arskoe cemetery there is an active Church of Yaroslavl Wonderworkers - Holy Princes Theodore, David and Constantine. The temple was erected on the churchyard in 1796 and has served believers since then. All necessary ritual services are performed in the church - funeral rites, memorial services.
Famous Soviet scientists, cultural figures, artists, healthcare workers, as well as politicians, outstanding athletes and military personnel awarded the titles of Heroes of the Soviet Union are buried at the Arskoye cemetery. The son of Joseph Stalin, Vasily Dzhugashvili, was interred at this necropolis. In 2002, his remains were reburied in Moscow. Now a cenotaph monument has been erected on the site of the grave.
Mass graves at the Arskoe cemetery
At the Arskoe cemetery there is mass grave, in which military personnel who died during the Great Patriotic War are buried. In memory of the defenders of the Motherland, a memorial sculpture warrior, as well as steles with the names of soldiers and officers.
In 1980, the Arskoye cemetery was closed for burials. Today the necropolis produces new burials coffin Burials in the cemetery are also carried out at available times. relatives and family graves. Repeated burials are carried out within established fences and if there is sufficient space.
Tour of the Arsky cemetery
How to get there and opening hours of the Arsky Cemetery
How to get there: by buses No. 1, 4, 25, 71, 74a, 91. The nearest stop is Gorky Central Park of Culture and Culture.
Working hours: Monday - Sunday, 8:00 - 17:00.
Phone: +7 (843) 533‒00‒00
Address: Russian Federation, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, st. N. Ershova, 25B
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The cemetery on the Arsky field, which once belonged to the Udmurts of the Ari tribe, was first mentioned in documents in 1766. Then it was located outside the city limits, therefore in 1774 it was chosen for the burial of the Pugachevites killed in the battle for Kazan. In the same year, after another plague epidemic, Catherine II by a special decree prohibited burials near the walls of parish churches; remote places were identified for this purpose, in particular the Arskoe cemetery. Then no one imagined that over time it would end up almost in the center of the city.
What to see
By the end of the 19th century, the huge necropolis was no longer purely Orthodox; areas for Old Believers, Catholics, Protestants and Jews were formed on it. After 1917, the division faded away, and now few people think about it. Among the celebrities who found their final refuge here are the great mathematician and discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry N. I. Lobachevsky, organic chemists A. E and B. A. Arbuzov, and Soviet naval commander L. M. Galler.
Cenotaphs were installed at the site of the graves of Vasily Stalin and Yakov Dzhugashvili, and the remains were reburied in Moscow at the Troekrovskoye cemetery.
At the end of the last century, plans were discussed to close the necropolis and expand it into the territory of the Central Park of Culture and Culture named after. Gorky, located across the road. But everything remains the same, burials continue, the area is well-tended, there are a lot of flowers and greenery. Fans of cemetery architecture will be interested in strolling along the alleys, looking at ancient tombstones and monuments.
The Church of the Yaroslavl Wonderworkers was erected at the entrance to the churchyard in 1796; during the years of persecution of religion, all the icons and relics from closed Kazan churches were brought here. For some time it even had the status of a cathedral, since there were no other churches left in the city. The service here has never stopped, which may be why parishioners love this cozy church so much.
Practical information
Address: Kazan, st. Nikolay Ershov, 25.
How to get there: by buses No. 1, 4, 25, 71, 90 to the stop. "CPKiO named after. Gorky" or No. 2, 3, 5, 10, 35, rest. "St. Abzhalilova."
Open-air museum. Arskoye Cemetery may become a tourist attraction
This is the last ancient necropolis of Kazan that has survived to this day. In just 245 years, at least 250,000 people are buried here
“I would like to see more order here, install a banner at the entrance indicating the most revered Kazan residents and their locations. “There will be 500 names at once,” says Eladshev. - Among them Nikolai Lobachevsky, academicians Alexander and Boris Arbuzovs, aircraft designer Vladimir Petlyakov, son of Stalin... This is a low-cost event, but it will have a big effect. Kazan is an extremely interesting city, and here lie people not just of local importance, but of Russian and even European importance.”
Our excursion with Eldashev begins from one of the historically significant and most interesting places of the Arsky cemetery - the crypt of an Old Believer merchant Yakov Filippovich Shamov and a nearby funeral chapel from the second half of the 19th century. The architect of the small building could possibly have been Konstantin Romanov, but this is not precisely defined. The crypt and chapel are now in scaffolding: the Kazan Old Believer community is engaged in restoration and repairs. Restoration is proceeding extremely slowly. However, the Old Believers take good care of their part of the cemetery and do not leave it without due attention, he notes.
Shamov’s crypt was built with money from the city duma, which previously happened extremely rarely, says Eldashev. Here he and his two closest comrades rest. Not far from here is the grave of his wife Agrippina Khrisanfovna(she died in 1927 under Soviet rule). She was not allowed to be buried next to her husband, so she was buried on the outskirts of the cemetery, the historian explains.
On the territory of the necropolis there are ten cemeteries at once: Russian, two Jewish, two Old Believer, Catholic, Lutheran, German, Polish, military. Previously, until the middle of the 19th century, they were separated by small fences, and then, due to a shortage of land, they were all connected. In total, there are more than 30 crypts on the territory of the Arsky cemetery, but almost all are in a dilapidated state. No one is watching them because their relatives have long since died or left the city. According to him, brick crypts are used for household needs, and no one pays special attention to them. It is difficult to do without political will here.
“The whole tragedy is that we don’t know who is buried under them. The pre-revolutionary and military archives of the cemetery are very scarce in this regard,” notes Eldashev. In 1961, re-registration was carried out at the necropolis, then in 1997, and as the relatives of the deceased themselves applied. According to him, Arskoye is still fraught with many unsolved secrets: there are underground passages and caches.
In April 2013, a local historian approached the city leadership with a request to install a memorial sign at the military cemetery for the heroes of the First World War and provided several dozen names that he himself managed to collect. But there was no response - the initiative group placed a memorial wooden cross at the entrance on the left side. “Although, let’s take Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, where a large cultural complex was installed with the participation of the Russian President.”
One of the most valuable places of the old necropolis is the first alley, the church alley, which is located behind the altar; iconic ministers were buried near the church. The second pedestrian alley was called academic. There lie docents, workers of the theological seminary and the Kazan Theological Academy - a total of 12 professorial graves. At the end of last year, Eldashev found the grave of the last abbess of the Kazan Mother of God Monastery Rachel (Anna Gavrilovna Ershova). The famous Kazan nun is buried on the second pedestrian alley behind the chapel of the merchant Vinokurov.
Go ahead. “Do you know whose burial on Arsky is the oldest?” - Eldashev asks us and leads us to the grave of the Kazan mayor Osip Semenovich Petrov(1754-1818), which is located on the left side of the church. The remaining tombstones of the 18th century can no longer be found; they have not survived to this day.
“Many historically significant cemeteries of the city were destroyed, such as those at the Zilantov Monastery, Kizichesky, Spaso-Preobrazhensky, but this remains. But isn't it interesting that a noble family lies here Rimskikh-Korsakov? Or conductor Morev, in the choir of which there were up to 600 people?
Our tour ends at the grave Alexander Mikhailovich Zaitsev(June 20, 1841, Kazan - August 19, 1910) - Russian organic chemist, world-famous scientist. The cross is long gone, the crown is askew...
“Who should look after her? - Eldashev asks a question and answers himself - Kazan University. - I am in favor of ensuring that organizations where famous Kazan residents worked monitor their graves. This is not written down anywhere, but the morality of human society in any era is determined by the attitude towards children, the elderly and necropolises. We won't live forever."
so that’s an interesting idea... all over the world famous cemeteries are looked after and supported. and we have such an abandoned place right in the center of the city... in Chelny there is also a similar cemetery, now a shelter for homeless people and a garbage dump
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I somehow feel uneasy from the photos...they look kind of post-apocalyptic...such crosses and crosses in the background and everything is orange...
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Ildusaby
We have one more problem - winter and snow. at this time, caring for any objects in the open air is practically impossible and useless. Maybe that’s why the authorities don’t think about it.
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Great article! It's good that the robberies of the fences have stopped now. And then my grandfather’s fresh fence was stolen a week later
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An old joke about the Kremlin helped a native of Sabov become “Miss Tatarstan”, and Tukay’s poem helped the shuttlewoman win the title “Miss Kazan”
For the next competition, which will be the 20th, the head of the Ministry of Sports of Tatarstan Vladimir Leonov promised to come up with “something like that”
President of “Miss Tatarstan” Isolda Sakharova, “Miss Tatarstan” Zulfiya Sharafeeva, head of the Ministry of Sports of the Republic of Tatarstan Vladimir Leonov
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Late on Sunday in the Kazan “Pyramid” the name of the new “Miss Tatarstan” was announced. She became 22 years old Zulfiya Sharafeeva from Sabinsky district. "Miss Kazan" was announced at 20 years old Kamilya Kharisova, a native of Naberezhnye Chelny, who came to study in the capital of Tatarstan. According to the jury, the intellectual competition was decisive in determining the winners.
The first runner-up was 19-year-old Ekaterina Grudtsova, the second runner-up was 20-year-old Ekaterina Tebekina. Both girls are from Kazan. “Miss Photo” is recognized as 17-year-old Anastasia Torgashova from Kazan, and “Miss Charm” is 16-year-old Evelina Gareeva, representing Chelny
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On the eve of the anniversary
The current competition was the 19th in the history of “Miss Tatarstan” and was called “on the eve” behind our backs. Next year, at the 20th anniversary competition, the head of the Ministry of Sports of Tatarstan Vladimir Leonov, who traditionally was on the Miss Tatarstan jury, promised to come up with “something like that.”
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On the competition jury, the fate of the contestants was decided by Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan Larisa Sulima, Head of the Kazan Department of Culture Azat Abzalov, Deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Anastasia Isaeva, artistic director and chief conductor of the orchestraLaPrimavera Rustem Abyazov, finalist of “Miss Tatarstan 2010”, winner of the title “Miss Russia International 2011” Alisa Tulynina, president of “Miss Tatarstan” Isolda Sakharova and others
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The competition started half an hour late, at 7:30 p.m., and ended after midnight. Everything was done in a dynamic and minimalist, even harsh style. There was a Russian electropop group in the arena all evening Tesla Boy, who accompanied the girls during the fashion show.
Leader of the Tesla Boy group Anton Sevidov
There were no other numbers or performers that evening - visiting musicians performed solo solos. The presenter added a humorous touch Mikhail Volkonadsky, who periodically teased the participants. There were 30 finalists.
For the first fashion show, they wore black dresses with bolero-type capes in black and red tones. Photographers immediately began placing bets on the winners (100 rubles per person). As it turned out later, no one bet on the future “Miss Tatarstan”, but one of the most experienced photographers with a trained eye pointed to the owner of the second most important title - “Miss Kazan”. Each of the 30 finalists descended into the hall to the music and paraded between the rows along an imaginary podium. As Sakharova later said, this was done to create a more intimate atmosphere and so that the jury members could take a closer look at the beauty of the participants.
Usually the most anticipated competition for men, the Swimsuit Show was also quite unusual. The girls came out in solid black swimsuits with strange designs on their heads. Some of my colleagues called them muzzles, but Sakharova said that they were not called anything at all, and suggested that they be considered futuristic designs, and “Miss Kazan” spoke of them as hats of the future.
Puzzles, poems, milking a cow and getting inspired
After a short break, only 10 super finalists, selected by the jury, appeared on stage, wearing black trousers and red jackets. The most difficult and exciting stage, as they admit, is the blitz interview. But the most fun for the audience. Volkonadsky pulled out this competition as best he could.
The girls chose a number from 1 to 10, under which there were tasks. In some cases, participants were even given an answer option. The bravest participant number 7, who ultimately chose task 7, the second vice-miss Tebekina, was asked about the Krasava soccer ball, which the participants of the 2017 Confederations Cup will play with. The girl clearly did not realize that its name should echo the contestants, who can definitely be considered beautiful, and began a lengthy argument that the ball is very symbolic and stylistically matches the Miss Tatarstan contest.
The second participant received three puzzles, in which modern songs were encrypted: “Lada sedan - eggplant!”, “Woman, I don’t dance,” and one of the riddles could only be solved with the help of the audience. Future First Vice-Miss Grudtsova recognized the First Lady of the United States from a photo Melania Trump and admitted that if she were in her place, at the inauguration she would be confident, beautiful and would become an adornment to her husband.
Torgashova was asked to scream like Tarzan, refuting the claim that beauty pageant participants have no sense of humor. “Miss Kazan” Kharisova showed off her erudition, recognizing Van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night”. She answered the question with what mood she would go to the exhibition of this artist, which is sung in the song “Exhibit” by Sergei Shnurov. “It doesn’t matter what you wear to the exhibition. It is very important in what mood we go to the exhibition. I go to exhibitions to get inspiration.” After which the presenter once again teased the participant with the question of when was the last time she could “draw” this inspiration.
A real man must do three things in life, Volkonadsky explained to one of the participants (meaning build a house, plant a tree and raise a son). The participant had her own options: be supportive of her woman, give compliments and love. “And a woman should be the best for a man, take care of herself and thirdly... (long pause) decorate a man,” says the young participant, and the presenter continues to joke: “Yes, especially on New Year’s Eve, like a Christmas tree.”
The future winner was asked a strange question about the growing demand for eyebrow cosmetics. Sharafeeva has a normal attitude towards cosmetics, she is for light makeup without overload: “We are very lucky. We can highlight our beauty, why not take advantage of it? I always say how lucky women are: you put on makeup and you’re beautiful.”
After the presenter's questions, the jury members could ask their own. Sulima asked to read her favorite poems. The participants read lines from Simonov, Tyutchev and even their own compositions. Kharisov - a poem by Gabdulla Tukay in the Tatar language. “We came to a beauty contest, but ended up at a poetry evening,” comments Volkonadsky.
The funniest question was from the Simply Milk company about the ability to milk a cow and what needs to be done to make it produce more milk. It turned out that two superfinalists had experience milking cows and the animals even survived. And Irina Bulaeva from Chelny clearly demonstrates with her fingers how she helped her granny milk the cows: “We squeeze the udder with our fingers, milk it, and a trickle of milk runs out.”
A minister with a Kavanian past, Leonov, is interested in why the Kremlin in Moscow is red, but in Kazan it is white. It would seem like a question from the past, but the answer obviously had a strong impact on the future decision of the jury. “We Tatars have nothing to blush for,” the future “Miss Tatarstan” cheerfully answered and surprised Volkonadsky: “Wow, he remembers.”
Abyazov asked what distinguished Orpheus and what musical instrument he played. The same Sharafeeva was close to the correct answer with a harp (actually a golden cithara). Zulfiya also guessed what the standard of gold products means - the percentage of precious metal content. Answering the question of how a modern girl can influence the development of society, many talked about raising children and bringing beauty to the masses.
Deputy Minister was offended by 14-year-old participants
After the final competition, an intermission is announced for discussion. The finalists are standing on the sidelines, staggering and worried. Not even 15 minutes have passed before Volkonadsky calls on everyone to get ready to leave, because the choice has already been made.
Leonov admits that the jury’s opinion on the winners was almost unanimous and changed after the intellectual competition. “Today the competition was organized in a modern, new way. I didn’t expect that my question about the Kremlin would be answered so quickly; I didn’t expect that they would remember. This is pure improvisation.” Sakharova humorously suppressed journalists’ doubts about whether this was a preparation: “Of course, we gather ministers before the final and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.”
Leonov says that the current competition has become more mature. This is expressed both in the age of the participants, their behavior, and the appearance of the competition. He also liked the format when the participants entered the hall - it was more convenient and closer to watch. “We are not sitting in the front rows, it’s too far to see from the stage. And when they come closer, you can see the texture. Of course, we evaluate everything together. But we changed our decision when the girls started answering questions. They either confirmed our opinion or spoiled the impression. Some answered very nicely, some deeper, some more humorous,” he explains.
Sulima also says that the competition has matured: “In previous years, I was offended when I saw 14-year-old girls on stage. I believe that it is too early for 14 and even 16-year-old schoolgirls to participate in such competitions. Nowadays, mostly female students participate. The intellectual competition showed that the level of education is growing.”
The deputy minister has been sitting on the jury of the competition since 2011 and previously noticed how the participants were shy and tight, but now they behave very freely, present themselves beautifully, and demonstrate rich inner content.
Participation in the Miss Tatarstan competition is one of the possibilities, a kind of social lift for girls, says Sulima. She admits that disputes about whether such competitions are necessary arise regularly: “There are people who think that it is better not to organize holidays, but to spend the money on increasing pensions and renovating yards. But we cannot live without beauty. Our competitions with a 20-year history - “Student of the Year”, “Student Spring”, “Spring Drops”, “Constellation” - are a chance for youth and children to realize their potential. We must find opportunities to preserve traditions, maybe optimize them, but not abandon these competitions.”
Arskoe cemetery- a corner of dense greenery, bird chirping and respectful silence in the very center Kazan.
Arskoe cemetery- a huge necropolis - part of the great destiny of a thousand-year-old metropolis. It is no coincidence that Heinrich Heine argued that every person is a world that is born with him and dies with him, and under every gravestone lies world history.
Arskoe cemetery of Kazan formerly it was called Kurtinsky - from the word “curtain”, which, according to Vladimir Dahl, means a separate plot of land, a small island or a cemetery. It originated and began to expand, most likely, back in the 17th century, and at the end of the next century, a building was built on its border.
The regular plan of Kazan was drawn up in 1768 by the first professional architect in the history of the city, provincial architect Vasily Ivanovich Kaftyrev. The Arskoe cemetery was listed on the plans of 1780 and 1842, as well as on the handwritten geometric map of 1796. It owed the appearance of its own church to the decrees, which was strongly impressed by the mass death of thousands of people and the death of the Archbishop of Moscow. Ambrose was literally torn to pieces by the crowd because he ordered it to be removed from public access in order to avoid crowds of people during the epidemic.
The Empress prohibited “to bury the dead in cities near churches”, ordering “to set aside special cemeteries outside the city for this... with the construction of special churches near the cemeteries”.
The first known burials took place on Arsky after July 12 and 13, 1774. Then the bodies of the Pugachevites who were killed during the storming of the settlement and the Kremlin, the defenders and civilians of the city who died during the fighting, about 300 people in total, were interred.
The names of the townspeople buried here back in the 18th century are known. These are the collegiate adviser Gregory von Dunstern (1798), noblewoman Ekaterina Ivanova (1791), merchant wife Tatyana Kameneva (1779). Among the earliest burials of the cemetery that have survived today is the grave of the “eminent in service” merchant of the 2nd guild and city mayor Osip Semenovich Petrov.
Vladimir Vysotsky was truly right when he said that “everything is calm in the cemetery.” “Neither the crack of thunder, nor the whistling of winds,” nor the storms of life disturb those who are buried in this mournful land.
In today's Arsk necropolis, “life is spent” mainly by the burials of townspeople who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. To this day, it is difficult to find a family or family dynasty in Kazan whose representatives were not buried here.
Even before the Russian revolutions of the 20th century, the Arskoye cemetery ceased to be exclusively Orthodox. Jews, Catholics, and Lutherans were buried here. At first, there were specially designated areas in the cemetery, but after October 1917, with the advent of the ideology of militant atheism in the country, everything began to get mixed up. And today, the burial places of the Tatars coexist with the graves of Orthodox Christians and Old Believers, and in a section of the territory known among Kazan residents as the “Jewish cemetery,” many Russians are buried.
Very close to the threshold of the Church of the Yaroslavl Wonderworkers, the area of the Orthodox necropolis of the Arsk cemetery begins. Many prominent church figures from both the city and the entire Kazan region are buried behind the altar of the temple. At the northern side entrance you can see the grave of the rector of the Kazan Theological Academy, Archimandrite Innocent, in the world of Ivan Matveevich Novgorodov (1823-1868), who died of tuberculosis, which he had suffered from since his youth. At the grave of the archimandrite there was an original monument depicting a church lectern with the Gospel lying on it.
The rector of the theological academy, Archpriest Vladimirsky (1821-1906), is also buried here. It is noteworthy that Alexander Polikarpovich was the dean of the first historical and philological department of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Imperial Kazan University, a professor of theology, logic and psychology, as well as the rector of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross at this university.
In honor of the Kazan Theological Academy, the First pedestrian alley of the Arsky Pogost was previously called “academic”, since it was here that most of its professors and teachers were buried. Among them is Doctor of Theology, historian and Orthodox publicist Alexander Fedorovich Gusev, who actively polemicized with apologists of Darwinism and materialism.
Academy professor, philologist Ivan Yakovlevich Porfiryev studied the history of Russian literature and participated in the creation of a scientific description of the collections of the unique library in the Solovetsky Monastery. The historian and theologian Ivan Petrovich Gvozdev is buried nearby, and if you walk a little along the alleys of Arsk, you can find the grave of Viktor Ivanovich Nesmelov, a professor at both the Theological Academy and Kazan University. This philosopher and theologian is known for his fundamental two-volume study in the field of Christian anthropology, The Science of Man.
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Among the burials of famous Kazan residents at the Arskoye cemetery, one of the most famous and visited are the family graves of the Lobachevskys: himself (1792-1856), the author of non-Euclidean geometry and rector of Kazan University, as well as his older brother Alexander, daughter Sofia Kazina and grandson Neil, who lived only 4 years and 9 months.