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Cemetery records provided by Chesed Shel Emet, mitzvatemet.com. The oldest cemetery in the city No. 1 is popularly known as Botkinskoe, named after Botkina Street, on which it is located. The Russian Empire founded it in 1872 after the capture of the city of Tashkent. In 1918, the cemetery archive burned down. Therefore, the exact number of graves in the necropolis is unknown. There is information that in the period from 1918 to 2009, about 340 thousand people were buried here, and this despite the fact that the cemetery was closed for burials for many years and only suburials in existing graves are allowed on it.
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