Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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kremlin-wall-necropolis-180-2024741
title:
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
text:
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. Burials there began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolsheviks who died during the Moscow Bolshevik Uprising were buried in mass graves. The improvised burial site gradually transformed into the centerpiece of military and civilian honor during the Second World War. It is centered on Lenin's Mausoleum, initially built in wood in 1924 and rebuilt in granite in 1
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Burial site in central Moscow
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_Wall_Necropolis
date created:
2004-12-22T15:33:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:18:03Z
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