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Kremlin Wall Necropolis

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burial site cemetery memorial complex

The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a prestigious burial site in Moscow’s Red Square where many prominent Soviet leaders and figures are interred.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	burial site → cemetery → memorial complex →
accessPolicy	publicly accessible area of Red Square →
associatedWith	Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Soviet Union →
burialPractice	cremation with interment of ashes in wall niches → individual graves with monuments → mass graves for early revolution victims →
country	Russia →
hasPart	Lenin Mausoleum → individual graves → mass graves → urn niches in Kremlin Wall →
heritageDesignation	part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Kremlin and Red Square →
inception	1917 →
locatedIn	Moscow → Moscow Kremlin area → Red Square →
locatedNextTo	Kremlin Wall →
maintainedBy	authorities of Moscow Kremlin →
notableBurial	Alexei Kosygin → Anastas Mikoyan → Andrei Tupolev → Andrei Zhdanov → Felix Dzerzhinsky → Georgy Zhukov → Joseph Stalin → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Chernenko → Leonid Brezhnev → Maksim Gorky → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Kalinin → Mikhail Suslov → Nikolai Bukharin → Sergei Eisenstein → Sergei Kirov → Sergei Korolev → Vladimir Lenin → Yakov Sverdlov → Yuri Andropov → Yuri Gagarin →
periodOfIntensiveUse	Soviet era →
politicalSignificance	principal pantheon of Soviet state → symbol of Soviet leadership cult →
significantEvent	first burials after October Revolution →
usedFor	burial of Soviet leaders → burial of prominent Soviet figures → state funerals →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Felix Dzerzhinsky → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Bagramyan → Joseph Stalin → Kirill Meretskov → Konstantin Chernenko → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Leonid Brezhnev → Maksim Gorky → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Kalinin → Mikhail Suslov → Nadezhda Krupskaya → Sergei Korolev → William Z. Foster ("Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow") → Yakov Sverdlov → Yuri Andropov → Yuri Gagarin ("Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow") →	burialPlace
Red Square →	adjacentTo
Kremlin Wall Necropolis ("Kremlin Wall") →	locatedNextTo
Lenin Mausoleum →	nearby
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia ("Chudov Monastery (original burial)") →	placeOfBurial