Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery
Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище
Details
Established9 May 1960
Location
CountryRussia
Coordinates59°59′49″N 30°25′17″E / 59.9969°N 30.4214°E / 59.9969; 30.4214

Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery (Russian: Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище) is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the siege of Leningrad. On his first visit to Russia in 1993, US President Bill Clinton laid a wreath in commemoration of the victims' deaths and the US-Russian alliance in World War II.