Cimetière militaire soviétique de Noyers-Saint-Martin, Soviet military cemetery in Noyers-Saint-Martin, France.

The Soviet military cemetery of Noyers-Saint-Martin covers 1.6 hectares on the site of a former French air force signals base. Rows of pale grey concrete markers with truncated pyramidal tops and small engraved crosses stand on earthy ground, each carrying a dark plaque with white lettering. The 4,598 dead lie in 78 individual graves and three ossuaries, laid out by architect Igor Voskresensky.

The French state established this cemetery in 1980 to gather Soviet soldiers' remains from 38 departments across France following World War II. The consolidation of scattered graves was necessary to create a unified memorial space.

The memorial sculpture 'Flowers of Freedom' by Vladimir Surovtsev was installed in 2001. The cemetery is maintained by the French State, and the dead come from across the former USSR: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Most were prisoners of war, many from Stalag XII-F at the Ban-Saint-Jean camp on the Maginot Line.

The cemetery lies about 20 km north of Beauvais in the Oise department. The rows of pale concrete markers with engraved crosses and dark plaques face a low wire fence at the rear of the 1.6-hectare grounds. The site is maintained by the French State, and the three ossuaries stand apart from the 78 individual graves.

Among those buried here are soldiers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine who fell far from home. This diversity reflects how soldiers from across the Soviet Union ended up in France.