• http://www.f8.com/FP/Russia/R04a.html [2000]

• Evreiski nadpisi v Grizii, XVIII_XIX vv. (Jewish inscriptions in Georgian Republic, 18th - 19th centuries), by N.I. Babalikashvili. Tbilisi, 1971. 36 pages, illustrated, Russian. 72B1125. Notes: list 100 tombstones, 1756-1890, chronology, Hebrew inscriptions analysis and Russian translation.

• 149 gravestones were destroyed in the old Jewish cemetery. Source: Dateline World Jewry, World Jewish Congress, June 1998.

• Zum 50 jaehringen Bestehen des israelitischen Begraebnissplatzes vor dem Koenigstore, 1875-1925. (On the 50 years history of the Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) Jewish cemetery), by J. Rosenthal. Kaliningrad, 1925. 28 pages, cemetery entrance photograph, German. S62B3088. Notes: 70 names + death date, 1875-1925, arranged by roles in the community, community history, statistics. This book has the library information subject matter as: Cemeteries-Russia-Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast. described as 28 p, ill. Source: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
       Die Graeber unserer Lieben in: Festschrift zum 200 jaehrigen Bestehen des israelitischen Vereins f. Krankenpflege und Beerdigung Chevra Kaddisha zu Koenigsbert I. Pr.: Teil II (The graves of those we loved...), by E. Birnbaum. Kaliningrad, 1904, LVII, 39 pages. German & Hebrew inscriptions. S35V942. Notes: 779 tombstones, 1806-1863, 2 separate lists for men & women, list of identification of old & new names, list of the Burial Society leading personalities, list of cemetery reserved places, statistics, general index of family names.
      UPDATE: Grave of 19th century scholar, Rabbi Israel, Salanter, dedicated in Summer 2001, was destroyed at the end of 2001. Source: Dateline, World Jewry, January 2002. [January 2002]

MOSCOW:

• Vostryakovo Cemetery: Thirty graves were desecrated in the Jewish section of Moscow's Vostryakovo Cemetery in 1998. Eight tombstones were damaged beyond repair during the attack. Source: World Jewry World Jewish Congress, 501 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022, August 1998
      UPDATE: Lev Krichevsky of JTA Moscow is interested in the cemetery. [June 2003]
  

• Stela s evreiskoi nadpisim naidennaia v Mtskheta (Hebrew inscriptions on a tombstone found in Mtskheta [Georgian Republic] in Trudy 1st - Etnograficheskogo Museya Evreev Gruzii, tom 2, pp. 112-133, by A. Krikheli. Russian. S74B413. Notes: 1 tombstone, circa 4th-5th century, scriptural analysis. Source: Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish Cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

• In 1997, ten graves were desecrated. They were found after the April thaw. Source: Jewish Heritage Report, vol 1, Summer 1997; c/o Jewish Heritage Research Center, 123 Clarke St., Syracuse, NY 13210

• http://www.ticketsofrussia.ru/religion/judaism/spb/: History and photographs
  The once magnificent cemetery is now inactive due to lack of space. One can only be buried there if a family member is buried so that ashes can be included in a current grave. Condition: Falling to pieces. Source: Ruth Baker (703)-548-0979.
  
• http://www.jewishsf.com/bk960202/istp.htm from Jewish Bulletin of Northern California is a report that "60 gravestones were destroyed in the Jewish Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery the night of Jan. 16" [1996].
• http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos3-4/russia.htm "An important 20th -century architectural monument of the St. Petersburg Jewish Community, the pre-burial house at the Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration) Jewish Cemetery, is in serious disrepair, according to Tulane University Professor William Brumfield, an authority on Russian architecture and author of History of Russian Architecture and Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture.Designed by prominent modernist architect Yaacov Gevirts (1879-1942) and built between 1908-1910, the structure originally served as a prayer-house. This site is a variation of the 1893 (Grand Choral) synagogue: "Its elevation is simpler, more geometric, and modern. A low-pitched, smooth, green dome, slightly pointed at the top, rests on a square, blind-arched and slit-windowed tan drum that rises above a massive facade. Gray stone blocks flank lighter stonework around the four-centered entrance arch. Receding wings have blind arcades along the sides. Low walls enclose an arcaded forecourt, where Hebrew inscriptions run above pointed arches that are supported by Islamic capitals help on slender, short columns. The front gateway has massive rectilinear and stepped gateposts, reinforcing the impression of weighty geometric form" (Synagogues of Europe, p. 220). Gevirts designed St. Petersburg apartment buildings and many specifically Jewish structures, including a Jewish almshouse, and the synagogue in Krakhov, Ukraine.
        The Jewish cemetery is named for its location next to the Christian Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration) Cemetery. After the Russian Revolution, the Christian cemetery was renamed "in memory of the victims of January 9 (Bloody Sunday)". Only the Jewish section retains the original name. For more information about the Jews of St. Petersburg, see Beizer's The Jews of St. Petersburg. Philadelphia: 1989. Source: "St. Petersburg's Cemetery Pre-Burial House, an Example of Early Modernism, in Dire Need of Repair." Jewish Heritage Report volume II, 3-4, 1998-1999. [March 2002]

• 52 headstones were desecrated on Easter, 1997. Source: Jewish Heritage Report, vol 1, Summer 1997; c/o Jewish Heritage Research Center, 123 Clarke St., Syracuse, NY 13210

• From World Jewish Congress' Dateline, August 1996: "Vandals have desecrated several tombs at a Jewish cemetery in the central Russian town of Tambov, painting swastikas on the monuments. The local Jewish community suspects a neo-Fascist group of committing the desecration, the fourth in recent years."

• "50 headstones in a Jewish graveyard in the Ortachala district of Tbilisi were destroyed by vandals in late January" (1994?) Source: Dateline, World Jewry, Jan. 1999. World Jewish Congress

Revised Monday September 12 2005