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Novodevichy Cemetery
Новодевичье кладбище
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Established1898
Location
Moscow
CountryRussia
Coordinates55°43′29″N 37°33′15″E / 55.72472°N 37.55417°E / 55.72472; 37.55417
Size7.5 hectares (19 acres)
No. of interments26,000
The cemetery wall is used as a columbarium.

Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новодевичье кладбище, romanized: Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site.[1]

  1. ^ Vorhees, Mara; Ryan Ver Berkmoes (2003). Lonely Planet Moscow. Lonely Planet. p. 256. ISBN 1864503599.

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