Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

Many collective memorials to particular ethno-confessional groups have been added in the grounds of the cemetery since 1990 and the large monument of the "Moloch of Totalitarianism" (sculptors Nina Galitskaia and Vitaly Gambarov) was erected by the entrance in 1996. A memorial to Italians who died in the Soviet Gulag was added to the site (Gallery No. 8) in 2007. Other memorials were enacted for a range of groups, including Jews, Norwegians, Assyrians, Seventh-day Adventists, and the deaf. By established tradition, relatives or descendants of the victims also began adding their own personal memorials or plaques. By 2017 more than 1,300 of them (Gallery No. 12) were distributed around the of the site. They were symbolic acts of remembrance: the actual location of any particular body was not known and impossible to determine. ==Annual events==

Various annual events are held at the cemetery. On 25 January or the nearest Sunday in January or February, the "Feast of Russia's New Martyrs and Confessors" is celebrated by the St Petersburg Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church. In June solemn ceremonies are held in Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. On 30 October each year, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, commemorative events are organized at the cemetery by the Memorial society and other NGOs. In 2016 the event was attended by NGOs, city officials, diplomats, foreign delegations, representatives of various ethno-confessional groups and relatives and descendants of the victims. ==Buried at Levashovo==

Some of those known to have died or been executed in the city's prisons before and after the Second World War are listed below. Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky, for instance, was sentenced to death in 1950 as the leader of the so-called Leningrad plot. Others like the writers Livshits and Kornilov, or the German communists Rudolf and Anna Tieke, were victims of the Great Terror (1937–1938). • Igor Akulov • Evgeny Henkin • Boris Kornilov • Alexey Kuznetsov • Benedikt Livshits • Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky • Nikolay Oleynikov • Mikhail Rodionov • Julian Shchutsky • Kirill Stutzka • Anna and Rudolf Tieke • Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky ==Gallery==

File:Левашовская пустошь. Ассирийцы.JPG|1. To Assyrians File:Левашовская пустошь. Беларусы.JPG|2. To Belarusians File:Левашовская пустошь. Верующим.JPG|3. To Orthodox believers File:Левашовская пустошь. Вечная память.JPG| 4. Never forget File:Левашовская пустошь. Евреи.JPG|5. To Jews File:Левашовская пустошь. Исповедь.JPG|7. Confession File:Левашовская пустошь. Итальянцы.JPG|8. To Italians File:Левашовская пустошь. Колокол.JPG|9. The Bell of Memory File:197. Левашовская пустошь. Памятник латышам.jpg|10. To Latvians File:Левашовская пустошь. Литовцы.JPG|11. To Lithuanians File:Левашовская пустошь. Одиночные памятки.JPG|12. Private plaques & memorials File:Левашовская пустошь. От новгородцев.JPG|13. To Novgorodians File:Левашовская пустошь. Поляки1.JPG|14. To Poles File:Левашовская пустошь. Украинцы.JPG|15. To Ukrainians File:Левашовская пустошь. Финны.JPG|16. To Finns File:Левашовская пустошь. Эстонцы.JPG|17. To Estonians File:Левашовская пустошь. Энергетики.JPG|18. Energy workers shot by the NKVD File:Левашовская пустошь. Траурные ленты.JPG|19. Funeral ribbons File:Левашовская пустошь. У входа..JPG|20. By the entrance to Levashovo File:Левашовская пустошь. Поляки.JPG|21. To Poles File:To Germans of Russia.jpg|22. To Soviet / Russian Germans ==See also==