Perepechino Cemetery, cemetery in the Moscow region
Perepechino Cemetery covers 106 hectares near the village of Perepechino, close to the 32nd kilometre of the Leningradskoye Highway and Sheremetyevo Airport. It has over a hundred burial sections, two Muslim plots, a columbarium for urns, and an anonymous sector on its northern edge for unidentified or unclaimed bodies from Moscow. Near the entrance stands the Military Memorial Necropolis with a monument to the Unknown Soldier (2000, architect A. I. Laptev).
Perepechino Cemetery opened on 1 June 1999, initially covering 106 hectares, with plans to expand by 25 hectares. It was created mainly to bury Moscow residents despite lying well outside the city boundary. A military memorial necropolis with a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (2000, architect A. I. Laptev) was added near the entrance. The cemetery closed to new burials on 1 February 2019.
The cemetery lies near the 32nd kilometre of Leningradskoye Highway, close to Sheremetyevo Airport. It can be reached by car, by bus No. 865 from Planernaya metro station, or by regional bus No. 35 from Skhodnya railway station. It is open daily: May to September from 9:00 to 19:00, October to April from 9:00 to 17:00.
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