Continuationof the cemetery The central and only entrance to the Jewish cemetery is through the gate on Milanskaya Street 1, made by the talented Jewish artist Eduard Maidenberg. Currently, the cemetery is again active, although in the period 1978-1993 it was closed for new burials.The territory of the cemetery is 11 hectares and there are more than 40,000 graves on it. The ministers (in the house to the right of the entrance) have a book "The House of Eternity" with a plan of the cemetery and a list of burials, published at one time by the charitable foundation DOR le DOR. We recommend that you immediately turn left and follow the path to Beit Taara and Geniza - key cemetery monuments. Along the way, you will see various matzahs (tombstones), first later, then earlier.Some have the shape of a stele, others - a sarcophagus, others - their combination. A stone tree with a chopped off top means an early death.Can be indicated by a profession - words or a symbol (for example, a propeller for a pilot Lieutenant Bogusevich). Sometimes, in addition to the name of the buried person, there is the name of his or her relative who died in the Holocaust and does not rest in this grave. On the old matz there are no surnames, only the name and patronymic (ben - son, bat - daughter), 1-2 epithets and dates of birth and death, indicated by letters, and the symbol "Let his soul be bound in the knot of eternal life." Walking along the cemetery wall, you can see in it fragments of tombstones transferred from the lower part of the original cemetery. The path itself will lead you to the picturesque ruins of the Funerary Synagogue (Beit Taara). They say that anti-fascists were shot at its wall, of which traces of bullets have preserved their memory.The executed were buried in the cemetery in common graves. Turn right and you will immediately see Geniza (the burial place for Jewish manuscripts and Torah scrolls). Scrolls desecrated during the pogrom were reburied in it. Between the Funerary Synagogue and Geniza are the graves of the victims of the pogroms of 1903 and 1905. Immediately at the turn, attention is drawn to the grave of Gersh Patlazhan, blinded during the pogrom of 1905, pay attention to the symbolism of their matzahs, which are in a state of relative preservation. Seven-candlestick, horn, citrus fruit, palm branch, lamp, lion, bird, hands, jug. Geniza stands out both in color and in architecture. Immediately behind it is the crypt where the remains of Rebbe Zirelson rest, in which you can recently go down and inspect in detail. This is where knowledge of Hebrew can come in handy. There are many noteworthy tombstones in the cemetery, although it is quite difficult to navigate independently.