On the north side, which is owned by the city of Sevastopol, is located Fraternal Cemetery. This cemetery, which got the last Russian soldiers rest, is not only a symbol of courage and valor, and the eternal memory of our compatriots who died a hero's death in fierce battles for the town hero Sevastopol.
This cemetery is currently one of the attractions of Sevastopol. Here there was the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856 and the first heroic defense of Sevastopol from 1854 to 1855, when many of our men were killed. The dead soldiers were taken to the north of the city of Sevastopol.
Vice-Admiral VA Kornilov ordered to build three small churchyard. These graveyards are departmental. The last refuge found there sailors sappers, artillerymen, infantrymen on their shelves. In one mass grave buried immediately from 50 to 100 people. Above the fresh graves on top, reinforced cross or stacked stone. Sometimes the cross laid on the grave of obsolete ammunition and used cores. After a while, these graveyards have merged into one.
Initially it was called Peter and Paul Cemetery. Later, it was renamed the Fraternal Cemetery is one of the surviving heroes who passed the Crimean War. Name this character - Totleben. The new name of the cemetery in Sevastopol stuck. When the echoes died away last war Brotherly cemetery looked like cast. Navy Department decided to make a commitment for his accomplishment. Immediately we announced the collection of donations in order to elevate the grave and build a chapel in honor of Nicholas the Wonderworker, who is considered the patron saint of sailors. By the 50 th anniversary of the war, the main work on Bratsk a cemetery has been completed.
This cemetery until 1917 is a veritable shrine. Almost all of the tourists who visited Sevastopol, certainly we went there to honor the memory of the victims. On the Brethren Cemetery in the Second World War in 1941 was the command post of the defense of Sevastopol. And after The Great Patriotic War, the cemetery were buried in the defense of Sevastopol. After the war, there continue to bury those who died in the performance of duty.
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