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spent 136 million rubles ($1.5 million) for this purpose during the first half of 2024
This is compared to 38 million rubles ($432,000) spent by the regions to expand cemeteries in 2020, over 124 million rubles in 2021 ($1.4
billion rubles ($12.5 million) on cemetery expansion
However, during this period, Moscow conducted a large-scale cemetery renovation program, minus the spending of the capital region, Russia
spent about 125 million ($1.4 million) cumulatively for two years.MTOfficial statistics have not shown a surge in deaths resulting from the
According to state statistics agency Rosstat, the number of deaths decreased year-on-year by 22% in 2022 and by another 7.6% in
2023.Meanwhile, the independent news website Meduza analyzed the federal register of inheritance cases and estimated that about 120,000
people may have died in the war
Journalists from the BBC Russian service and Mediazona have managed to confirm the identities of more than 58,000 Russian soldiers killed in
during the first two years of the pandemic
A group of scientists led by the chief scientist of the Austria-based International Institute for Systems Analysis estimated that the real
toll of the pandemic in Russia exceeds 1 million people.But even during the pandemic, half as much was spent on expanding cemeteries as
autonomous district, cemeteries are being expanded in the settlements of Nizhnevartovsk, Kogalym, Langepas, Priobie and Talinka, according
to government procurement data
Mortality in the region is falling: the number of deaths in 2023 decreased by about 4%, according to state statistics agency Rosstat.More
than 233 million rubles ($2.6 million) were spent over 2.5 years to expand the cemetery in Nizhnevartovsk, which according to government
procurement data was carried out in four stages.The exact area of the cemetery is not specified in the procurement documents, but it is
calculated that the Tyumen region, which includes the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, was one of the
were expanded in the settlement of Verkh-Neyvinsky, the village of Nizhnyaya Oslyanka, in the cities of Polevskoy and Kamensk-Uralsky
In the latter, the expansion affected the Volkovskoye cemetery, where two blocks were allocated for people who died while taking part in the
rubles), the republic of Udmurtia (273,000 rubles), the Zabaikalsky region (356,000 rubles), the Perm region (542,000 rubles) and the
in Ukraine, with about 1,500 soldiers and officers having been buried there.About 40% of all cemeteries being expanded are located in urban
settlements and villages, while 60% are in small towns
Only three cemeteries belong to large cities or regional capitals (Moscow, St
there due to the war, among other things
Plus, if some regions decide to bury fighters in rural cemeteries instead of within the city limits, this is another argument in favor of
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