A new walking tour Necropolis of the Arsk cemetery in Kazan

A new walking tour Necropolis of the Arsk cemetery in Kazan

<p> A new walking tour Necropolis of the Arsk cemetery was created in Kazan. The correspondent of the KZN.RU portal together with other Kazan citizens visited the historical cemetery on a tour. </p> <p> Daria Sannikova, Director of the Committee for tourism development of the Executive Committee, noted that the new tourist route will be interesting to both visitors and local citizens. “Kazan is famous for outstanding people, and we wanted to show their burial places as well as tell about their lives during this tourist route”,- she said. </p> <p> Aidar Sadykov, a guide, said that the Arsk cemetery appeared thanks to the decree of Catherine II. The first burials here appeared in July 1774. </p> <p> Many monuments in the cemetery were destroyed in course of time, but to this day there are monuments and obelisks with epigraphs written in the pre-revolutionary style. </p> <p> The Arsk cemetery is known for burials of famous people who lived and worked in Kazan. Among them are chemist Alexander Arbuzov, ethnologist Nikolai Katanov, merchants Yakov Shamov and Vasily Lozhkin, composer Nazib Zhiganov, and historian Dmitry Petrushevsky. The scientist Nikolai Lobachevsky is also buried here with his children. </p> <p> The final point of the tour is the cenotaph (<i>a tombstone in a place that does not contain the remains of the deceased, a kind of symbolic grave – ed.)</i> of the son of Joseph Stalin – Vasily Dzhugashvili. </p> <p> “The tour is on the one hand mysterious, on the other – informative, in my opinion, it is a good time during the coronavirus pandemic, when entertainment venues are not yet working, but you can spend an interesting time,” - said D.Sannikova. </p>

2020-05-27T11:31:57+0300