Belgrade's New Cemetery

The New Cemetery (Serbian: Novo groblje/Ново гробље) is a cemetery complex in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian cemetery in Belgrade. The newly developed cemetery in that period had no chapel or church. The current church dedicated to Saint Nicholas was built in 1893 by Draginja and Stanojlo Petrović, through their generous endowment. The architect was Svetozar Ivačković.

Except for the graves of ordinary citizens, the cemetery complex also includes special parts: military graves from Serbian-Ottoman War (1876-1877), Serbo-Bulgarian War, Balkan Wars and World Wars, the Alley of the Greats and Alley of Distinguished Citizens, where some of the most important persons of Serbian history are buried.

The complex

Military graveyards

The oldest memorial at Novo groblje complex is the Serbian soldiers' ossuary built in 1907 which contains remains of the soldiers of Serbian-Ottoman War and Serbo-Bulgarian War that were transferred from Tašmajdan cemetery.^[1] Another important part of the complex are the military graveyards with the remains of soldiers from Balkan Wars and World Wars. It contains remains of Serbian and other Allied soldiers, as well as Axis soldiers (there are French,^[1][2] Russian,^[2] British,^[3][4] Italian,^[1] German, Austro-Hungarian^[2] and Bulgarian^[2] military graveyards).^[5] The complex of military graveyards also includes graves of those died in the 1941 and 1944 Bombing of Belgrade.

Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators

Liberators of Belgrade memorial

Part of the Novo groblje complex, but on the other side of the street from the main part is the Cemetery of Belgrade Liberators (Гробље ослободилаца Београда / Groblje oslobodilaca Beograda).^[5] It contains graves of 2944 National Liberation Army soldiers and 961 Red Army soldiers and the mass grave of 1381 National Liberation Army soldiers and 711 Red Army soldiers who died during the Belgrade Offensive.

The cemetery includes Liberators of Belgrade memorial with the relief by sculptor Rade Stanković and the Red Army soldier sculpture by Antun Augustinčić. In front of the memorial is the sculpture of a Partisan holding a gun by Rade Stanković.

Jewish cemetery

Next to the Cemetery of Liberators is the Jewish cemetery with the remains of Jewish soldiers who died in the Balkan Wars and World War I, ossuary of Jewish refugees from Austria and the Memorial to the Holocaust victims and Jewish soldiers died in World War II by the architect Bogdan Bogdanović.^[1]

Alley of the Greats

Tomb of Jovan Cvijić at the Alley of the Greats

Alley of the Greats (Serbian: Алеја великана / Aleja velikana) was created in the 19th century with move of the greats from the Tašmajdan Cemetery to the New Cemetery. It was formed in 1927, with 22 places for the tombs. Some of the people buried at the Alley of the Greats are:

• Kornelije Stanković (1831–1865), composer^[6]
• Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac (1789–1878), donator^[7]
• Stevan Kaćanski (1828–1890), poet^[8]
• Petar Kočić (1877–1916), writer^[9]
• Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927), geographer^[10]
• Kosta Hristić (1852–1927), diplomat and writer^[11]
• Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958)
• Stevan Hristić (1885–1958), composer^[12]
• Svetozar Gligorić (1923-2012), chess player.

Alley of Distinguished Citizens

Tomb of Zoran Đinđić at the Alley of Distinguished Citizens

Alley of Distinguished Citizens (Serbian: Алеја заслужних грађана / Aleja zaslužnih građana) was formed in 1965,^[1] and that alley is used since then for the distinguished and important citizens burial, after special procedure and approval of the City Assembly of Belgrade and Mayor of Belgrade. It contains single and group tombs of important writers, artists, actors, generals, people's heroes and other important persons. Some of the people buried at the Alley of Distinguished Citizens are:^[13]

• Paja Jovanović, (1859–1957), painter
• Radivoj Korać, (1938–1969), basketball player
• Petar Lubarda, (1907–1974), painter
• Mija Aleksić, (1923–1995), actor
• Ivo Andrić,^[14] (1892–1975), writer, and Nobel Prize winner
• Miloš Crnjanski, (1893–1977), poet, author, and a diplomat
• Rastko Petrović, (1898–1949), poet, literary critic, art critic, author and diplomat
• Veljko Vlahović, (1914–1975), politician, Order of the National Hero bearer
• Ivan Stambolić, (1936–2000), politician
• Ljubinka Bobić, (1897–1978), actress
• Dušan Radović, (1922–1984), journalist and writer
• Branko Ćopić, (1915–1984), writer
• Zoran Radmilović, (1933–1985), actor
• Danilo Kiš, (1935–1989), writer
• Slobodan Marković, (1928–1990), poet
• Vasko Popa, (1922–1991), poet
• Borislav Pekić, (1930–1992), writer
• Dragomir Brajković, (1947–2009), writer
• Milić od Mačve, (1934–2000), painter
• Zoran Đinđić,^[15] (1952–2003), Prime Minister of Serbia
• Stevo Žigon, (1926–2005), actor
• Nikola Ljubičić, (1916–2005), general, Order of the National Hero bearer, President of Serbia
• Ljuba Tadić, (1929–2005), actor
• Nenad Bogdanović, (1954–2007), Mayor of Belgrade
• Milenko Zablaćanski, (1955–2008), actor
• Meša Selimović (1910–1982), writer^[16]

Gallery

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Novo groblje Beograd.

• Novo groblje
• Novo groblje sa Alejom velikana at [www.ANTIC.org] (Serbian)
• Nenad Bogdanović will not sign decision about Slobodan Milošević burial in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens, 13. Mart 2006. (Serbian)
• Ljuba Tadić buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens (Serbian)
• Mayor of Belgrade Nenad Bogdanović buried in the New Cemetery, 30. September 2007. (Serbian)
• CWGC: Belgrade new cemetery

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