Baikove Cemetery
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Baikove Cemetery is a historic cemetery memorial in Holosiivskyi District of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a National Historic Monument of Ukraine and is known as a necropolis of distinguished people.
Main entrance to Baikove Cemetery
Crematorium by Avraham Miletski
The writer Lesya Ukrainka's grave
Vikentiy Khvoyka's grave
Leonid Kravchuk
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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first president of Ukraine from 5 December 1991 to 19 July 1994. Kravchuk's presidency was marked by Ukraine achieving independe
Baikove Cemetery
…for funeral ceremonies. Today it is again used as a church. In 1975 a new crematorium in modern style was built in the western part of the cemetery. Leonid Kravchuk (1934–2022) – politician and president of Ukraine (1991–1994). Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934) – politician, academician, historian and president of…
Kravchuk in 1991
Kravchuk on a visit to Kharkiv during his electoral campaign in 1990
1991 Soviet stamp commemorating the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
General Valentin Varennikov, leader of the State Committee on the State of Emergency in Kyiv