Khovanskoye Cemetery

Khovanskoye Cemetery on the Moscow ring road in the city's southwest is, at around 200 hectares, the largest cemetery in Europe. It was laid out in 1972 in the late Brezhnev era because the inner-city Moscow burial grounds had long been full, and is divided into three main sections along the highway, including a dedicated military area. Several hundred thousand people are buried here, among them many well-known scientists, actors and athletes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period. Today most visitors come for grave care; for travellers the interest lies in the late-Soviet funerary architecture and the Orthodox Resurrection church at the entrance.