List of Soviet military burials
Aldershot Military Cemetery is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. The care of the graves of those who died in the First and Second World War is carried out by the «Commonwealth Commission on War Graves» together with the cemetery administration. 690 soldiers who died during the First World War and 129 during the Second World War are buried in the cemetery. Among them is Vasily Lukyanov, a private of the Red Army.
A large number of military graves are located in Leeds, where the Yorkshire Medical and Rehabilitation Center was located during both World Wars.
The ashes of soldiers and officers of the British Army who died in the First and Second World War are buried in the Harehills Cemetery. Most of the soldiers' graves are located in section «G». The total number of graves from the Second World War is 150, three of them belong to soldiers of the Allied armies. Roman Steklov, a Soviet serviceman, is buried in this cemetery.
The remains of British soldiers who died on the battlefields of both World wars are buried in the military cemetery in Tidworth. During the First World War, the cemetery was used for the burial of the deceased at the Tidworth and Fargo military hospitals. There are 417 graves of soldiers of the armies of Australia and New Zealand in the cemetery. 106 graves belong to the time of the Second World War. Most of them are located in sections «F» and «D». Three Soviet servicemen are buried in Tidworth (Alexander NOVOKRESCHENOV, Suleiman SULEIMANOV, Nikolai KHORASIK).
The cemetery contains 27 graves of British soldiers buried here during the First World War of 1914-1918. During the Second World War, 42 more soldiers of the Commonwealth Army, as well as the Allied armies were buried in the cemetery. Among them is Ivan Maslakov, a Red-navy man.
In addition to the 386 graves of Canadian and British soldiers buried at Kirkdale Cemetery during the First World War, 106 soldiers of Her Royal Majesty and nine servicemen from other countries of the world found their last shelter here. Most of the latter are Americans, Belgians and Germans. In January 1945, Private Garantia Shalva Satenovich was buried here.
455 soldiers and officers of the British Army who died on the fronts of the First World War and 459 who died in the Second World War are buried at the Enfield Cemetery in Liverpool. Two of them still remain unknown. Also, the ashes of 67 servicemen of other countries, mainly Danish and Norwegian sailors, rest in the cemetery. In section 20 of the Enfield Cemetery there is the grave of Soviet serviceman Nikolai KUSYK, who was buried here in November 1944.
The Shaftesbury City Cemetery contains 27 graves of Allied soldiers from the Second World War. In another 11 graves are buried foreign servicemen who were in British captivity after the opening of the second front in the summer of 1944. Most of them are Italian prisoners of war held in Shaftesbury camp. The cemetery also contains the ashes of Vladimir Dushin - private of the Red Army. V. Dushin died on February 6, 1945 in the Gais Marsh Military Hospital. In the course of our research, two versions appeared about V. Dushin's stay in an English hospital: he could have been one of the few Soviet prisoners of war who escaped from Germany via Gibraltar to England, or was released by British troops from one of the concentration camps and transported to the UK for treatment. In memory of V. Dushin and all Soviet citizens who died in World War II, a memorial plaque is installed on the wall of the hospital.
Two plots in Chester (Blacon) cemetery were given for the servicemen burials. The biggest plot ('A') was allotted to the Royal Air-Force servicemen burials, the smaller plot ('H') has the graves of servicemen of different forces and foreign citizens, mainly soldiers the Polish Army who died in Cheshire in hospitals nearby. The total number of the graves in Chester (Blacon) cemetery is 461, one is nameless, 97 of foreign citizens, 86 of them are of Polish soldiers and officers. In spring 1945 some of Soviet soldiers were buried here, their lots are unknown.
On spring 1945 Soviet soldiers, who died in the military hospital in Cheshire, were buried here: Korsilava Konstantin, Kardava Shota, Gorin Nikolay, Lobshanidze Ameos.
At Huddersfield (Edgerton) cemetery there are 71 burials of the UK soldiers who were killed at the front-line of World War 2.
24 of them are situated in the Military section (number 14). After the war due to the reorganization of a few local church cemeteried the remains of soldiers and officers killed in the both World wars were reburied at Huddersfield cemetery. Two graves belond to the Soviet soldiers, who were buried here in 1945. They were I.S. Egoryan (first and middle names are unknown) and Dulat Yusabov.
During World War II, Yorkshire was not only a rehabilitation center for the wounded, but also the largest center for RAF location. There were about 10 larger or smaller aircraft bases of the Royal Air Fleet in the area. Almost all of the burials in Harrogate (Stonefall) cemetery, a total of 988, belong to the pilots, three quarters of them to the citizens of Canada, many of them died of wounds in Harrogate hospital.
After the opening of the Second Front, a large number of the liberated from German camps were sent to Yorkshire. Many of them were in need of an immediate medical attention and rehabilitation. Unfortunately not everyone was rescued. In 1945, Soviet soldiers Kapalil Petr, Ustinov Ivan and Kolyshev S (first name is still unknown) were buried at this cemetery.
The memorial cross marks the common grave on the territory of the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport. In this grave lie the bodies of Russian sailors from the squadron of Admiral Dmitry Sinyavin who died during their stay in Portsmouth in 1808-1809 (95 seamen).
Finnish seamen, who died from 1854 to 1857 are buried at the Lewes Cemetery. They were captured in the fortress of Bomarsund (Åland Islands) by an Anglo-French fleet during the Crimean War (27 persons). The memorial was erected by the order of Emperor Aleksandr II.