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Klin-Yar
Klin-Yar (Клин-Яр, "crooked valley"), a multi-period cemetery near Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai, North Caucasus, used from the 8th century BC Koban Culture through Sarmatian and Alanic phases to the 7th–8th centuries AD, with over 400 excavated graves and a rich 'elite plot' on a Silk Road branch.
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Kremlin Wall Necropolis (Некрополь у Кремлёвской стены), Soviet national cemetery on Red Square, Moscow, begun 1917 with 238 buried fighters; wall niches, mass graves, and leaders' graves beside Lenin's Mausoleum.
Mokraya Balka cemetery
Mokraya Balka cemetery (Мокрая Балка), Alanic catacomb necropolis near Pyatigorsk in the Kislovodsk basin, North Caucasus; nearly 100 burials of the 5th-12th centuries CE, excavated 1967-1975 by Afanasiev and Runich, a reference site for regional chronology.
Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище)
Novodevichy Cemetery (Новодевичье кладбище), Moscow's famous cemetery beside the Novodevichy Convent, opened in 1904 on land allotted in 1898; burial place of about 26,000 Russian cultural, scientific, and political figures, UNESCO-listed since 2004.
Sopka-2
Sopka-2 (Могильник Сопка-2) is a large multi-period Bronze Age to medieval cemetery in the Baraba forest-steppe, Novosibirsk Region, Russia, excavated by V.I. Molodin; key for Krotovo, Odino, and Seima-Turbino studies.