Sologubovka Cemetery

In September 2000, the Sologubovka Cemetery was opened in the presence of German and Russian officials, including many German veterans hoping to find lost comrades. The cemetery is one of dozens opened or refurbished since the end of the Cold War by the German War Graves Commission, which is tasked with restoring and maintaining the graves of German soldiers from both world wars. Most of the fallen soldiers remained lost or unknown for over forty years, their graves destroyed, abandoned or simply unknown. ==Russian sentiment==

The cemetery's opening ceremony was boycotted by some Russian Siege of Leningrad veterans, More than 700,000 Soviets died during the Battle of Leningrad near Sologubovka fighting German forces and their allies, presumably including those Germans buried here. Lingering anti-German sentiment over the war in general and the fact that the USSR frequently did not bury its own war dead was mentioned in the press, but no protests or overt hostility towards the new German presence was reported. == Lost German war dead ==

Up to 10,000 German military dead are found and buried each year in this part of Russia. The cemetery has become a point of reconciliation between German and Russian youth, who jointly search for unmarked graves around Sologubovka and elsewhere in Russia.{{cite web |url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1572908,00.html |title=Germany/Russia – Caring for War Graves ==See also==