Brethren Cemetery (Rostov-on-Don)

The cemetery, on the outskirts of the city, was inititllay considered to be a place for burial of the poor, here there were mostly brethren graves. So the cemetery's name derived from here. Later, a section for deceased soldiers and officers appeared at the cemetery, which mostly hasn't survived until our days.

The cemetery has monuments dedicated to soldiers of Rostov-on-Don People's Militia Regiment, who died in November 1941 and a monument in honor of soldiers the 230th NKVD Regiment who also died in November 1941 while defending Rostov-on-Don from invading German forces.^[2][3] From 1998 it is permitted to bury relatives of the ones already buried at the territory of the cemetery.^[2]

• Borys Dumenko – a commander of the Red Army
• Leonid Eberg – an architect who worked in Rostov-on-Don
• Alexander Borchaninov – a revolutionary and a statesman