Ar cemetery: faces of bygone eras

Walk along the author’s route through the territory of the Arsky cemetery, where you will see old crypts, chapels, marble monuments, granite tombstones and statues. This is the oldest necropolis of Kazan, the history of which dates back more than 250 years. You will be told about the general history of the cemetery, as well as about outstanding personalities whose ashes rest here.

You will get acquainted with the Orthodox, Old Believers, Lutheran, Catholic, Jewish and military sites of the Arsky cemetery. And also visit the temple of the Yaroslavl Wonderworkers, where many shrines of the Kazan diocese are preserved, as this is one of the few Orthodox churches that did not close during the Soviet period. You will also be shown the burial places of famous personalities such as Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Alexander Erminingeldovich Arbuzov, Mikhail Petrovich Devyataev, Nikolai Fedorovich Katanov.

Guide services.

The tour is carried out in the presence of a group of 5 people.