Baykove cemetery

Baikove Cemetery (Байкове кладовище)
National Landmark of History
Main entrance to Baikove Cemetery
Name origin: General Sergei Baikov
Country	Ukraine
Region–City	Kiev
Coordinates	50°25.00′N 30°30.35′E / 50.41667°N 30.50583°E / 50.41667; 30.50583Coordinates: 50°25.00′N 30°30.35′E / 50.41667°N 30.50583°E / 50.41667; 30.50583
Area	72.47 ha (179 acres)
Founded	1833
For public	open
Burials	87 National Landmarks of History

Baikove Cemetery (Ukrainian: Байкове кладовище) is an historic cemetery memorial in Holosiiv Raion of Kiev, Ukraine. It is a National Historic Landmark of Ukraine and is known as a necropolis of distinguished people. It was established in 1833. Among the buried, it includes Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Lesya Ukrainka, Slava Stetsko, Viacheslav Chornovil, Oles Honchar, Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Olena Pchilka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Oleksandr Bilash, Ostap Vyshnya, Ivan Mykolaychuk, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Leonid Telyatnikov, Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko, Oleg Antonov and Valeri Lobanovsky.

The cemetery was established in 1833. It has got its name from the nearby Baikovo estate. The oldest part of the cemetery is located south of the present vul. Baikova. The biggest part is located north of the street and was established in the 1880s. It is partly surrounded by a wall. Besides the Orthodox graves there are also Catholic and Lutheran sections.

In Soviet times the Baikove cemetery became the main necropolis of the Kiev's intelligentsia, middle and upper classes. Many of the headstones became pieces of monumental art. Also after the Ukrainian independence the cemetery has remained the most prestigious burial ground in the city. There 87 National Landmarks of History.