Italian war cemetery in Sevastopol, Foreign war cemetery in Balaklava Raion, Ukraine.

The Italian war cemetery in Sevastopol is a memorial on Mount Gasforta near Balaklava, marking the burial place of soldiers of the Kingdom of Sardinia who died in the Crimean War. Its 1882 chapel with a crypt, built by engineer-major Gerardini, was destroyed in 1941–1942; a memorial was raised in 2004 among the remaining prickly-pear cacti brought from Italy.

The Sardinian Expeditionary Corps of 17,000 men landed at Balaklava on 8 May 1855 and lost 2,194 men during the siege, of whom 2,166 died of disease, including General Alessandro La Marmora, struck down by cholera in June 1855. The dead were buried near the villages of Kamary and Kady-Koy. In August 1882 a chapel with a crypt was built on Mount Gasforta, designed by engineer-major Gerardini, and the remains were moved there; the necropolis and chapel were destroyed in 1941-1942 fighting and the ruins cleared in the late 1950s.

The site's Italian character survives mainly in the opuntia cacti brought from Italy, whose remaining clumps still mark the necropolis area on Mount Gasforta. The 2004 memorial stands in these thickets, and in September 2015 Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi laid flowers at the monument at the foot of the hill.

The memorial stands at the foot of Mount Gasforta near Balaklava, on the road toward the village of Oboronnoye (formerly Kamary). The 2004 stele was placed among the remaining prickly-pear cacti brought from Italy, which still mark the spot of the old necropolis. The hill saw front-line fighting in 1941-1942, so the ground is uneven and partly overgrown.

The cemetery holds Italian soldiers who found their final resting place far from their Mediterranean home. Their presence here reminds visitors how this Black Sea conflict affected people from distant lands.