Verch-Isetski District:
Grave 1 - World War II graves and memorial
Grave 2 - World War II graves and memorial
Grave 3 - World War II graves and memorial
Grave 4, with sculpture - poet, 1879 -
1950
Grave 5 - ? 1959 - 1994 13 02
Grave 6 - four persons executed on same day
Grave 7 - unknown
Grave 8 - unknown
Grave 9 - unknown
Grave 10 - unknown
Grave 11 - unknown
Grave 12 - unknown
Grave 13 - unknown
Grave 14 - ? XII 1896 - 1956 30 VI
Grave 15 - ? 1903 - 1949 ?
Grave 16, two names on one marker
Grave 16a - ? 1874 - 1944
Grave 16b - ? 1917 - 1987
Background grave - ? 1906 - 1957
Grave 17 - unknown
Grave 18 - unknown
Grave 19 - unknown
Grave 20 - eternal flame, October Revolution grave and memorial
Graves from other districts within city:
Grave 21 - Afghan grave and memorial
Grave 22 - Last Czar's execution site, memorial chapel (burnt)
Grave 23 - Last Czar's execution site, plaque in Old Russian
Grave 24 - Last Czar's execution site, new memorial chapel and
cross
Notes:
Author's recollection of rumor: Graves 5 and 6 are rumored to be mob executions.
Grave six is for a high-ranking mob figure, his accountant and two bodyguards.
Grave five was the son of a mob figure (also involved in the business). Memory
fades as to which came first, but one execution was in reprisal for the other. The reprisal
came exactly one year following the first execution(s).
The Afghan memorial was very touching - the photograph does not do it justice. A soldier,
sitting, rifle in one hand, head hanging in grief and disappointment as if to ask why this had to
happen. Surrounding him, a pillar for each year of the conflict inscribed with the names of
those who died that year from the city.
The building within which the last Czar was executed was found bulldozed one morning on the
orders of Yeltsin, then governor of the region (Regional First Secretary of the Communist Party).
Recently, one of the chapels (photo 22) was allegedly burned by members of the
Communist Party. A new chapel is in the slow process of construction (photo 24).
Visitors are cautioned that the locals believe visiting cemeteries alone or after dark is dangerous.
City known as Sverdlovsk during Soviet times. Official spelling used above; name
commonly spelled Ekaterinburg, rarely spelled Jekaterinburg. Photographs taken
approximately September 1995.
John Hofman
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