At the old cemetery in Kharkov (1989-1991)

View of a part of a monument to fallen Russian soldiers at an old cemetery in Kharkov, an inscription carved into granite.

View of an old grave covered with snow with a monument, people standing by the grave.

Faces of elderly people standing by the grave.

One of the elderly people gives an interview to a radio journalist.

An elderly man gives an interview to a radio journalist at a grave in an old cemetery in Kharkov.

Fragments of a stone cross on one of the old gravestones, covered with snow, the feet of people passing by the grave.

The elderly man talks about one of the graves, points to the monument.

People walk past a tombstone in an old cemetery in Kharkov.

An elderly man puts on his hat at the grave and turns to walk on.

A woman rakes snow off a tombstone.

A woman draws an Orthodox cross on a layer of snow covering an old gravestone, the names of those buried on the gravestone.

A monument on one of the old graves in a cemetery in Kharkov.

A woman draws an Orthodox cross on a layer of snow covering an old gravestone, the names of those buried on a gravestone.

A monument on one of the graves, elderly people walk between the graves.

A young woman helps an elderly woman approach the grave, cleans snow off the gravestone with her hand.

A woman kisses a wooden cross on one of the graves, makes the sign of the cross.

An inscription on one of the gravestones.

An inscription on one of the tombstones in the old cemetery of Kharkov.

An elderly woman stands at a grave with a stone cross, turns, walks between the graves, her feet sinking into the snow.

The woman walks off into the distance along a path trodden in the snow.

A woman walks along a path trodden in the snow past an old cemetery in Kharkov, stops, turns back, turns and walks towards the graves on the cemetery grounds.

An elderly woman stands near snow-covered grave mounds at an old cemetery in Kharkov, with a broken stone cross lying on one of the mounds.

A woman at a grave with a stone cross.

A row of old abandoned graves.

A view of part of the cemetery.

View of part of the old cemetery in Kharkov, crosses on graves.

Grave cross covered with snow.

Tombstones lying in disarray near the fence of an old cemetery in Kharkov, views of the city block adjacent to the cemetery (panorama).

Panorama of part of the cemetery fence and piled fragments of tombstones.

People examine the fragments of one of the tombstones.

An elderly man tries to read the inscription on a tombstone lying on its side, a surname on a fragment of a tombstone.

Elderly people examine fragments of tombstones at an old cemetery in Kharkov, trying to read the inscriptions on them, an inscription on one of the monuments.

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George's cross, carved in stone, on a fragment of one of the tombstones, the face of an elderly man telling the story of the burials.

Local residents at the cemetery give an interview to a radio journalist, a panorama of the fragments of monuments dumped in a heap.

A monument from a military mass grave lying on its side with an inscription about the transfer of remains from the mass cemetery to the Assumption Cemetery in Kharkov.