🍌 Mitinskoe Cemetery

Mitinskoe Cemetery is a cemetery located in Moscow's North-Western Administrative Okrug. It was established on September 15, 1978. A Russian Orthodox church, which was built in 1998, is located on its grounds and has been visited several times by Patriarch Alexius II. The cemetery has a total area of 1,080,000 m2 (11,600,000 sq ft). The cemetery is the final resting place of firefighters and power plant workers who died while putting out the fires from the Chernobyl disaster, as well as eminent Soviet and Russian cultural, scientific, and military figures. Olympic Silver Medalist Viktor Logunov (1944–2022) is buried here.