Military Cemetery (Minsk)

Inside the church there are plaques with the names of 118 Belarusians who perished recapturing the Bulgarian city of Pleven from the Turks.

in the interwar period the cemetery became the burial place of prominent statesmen, soldiers, scientists and people of creative professions.

Soviet authorities closed the church before World War II but during the German occupation services were resumed.

[1][2] In 2018, improvements were announced by the city authorities and municipal workers began dismantling many fences and monuments, which were replaced by cheap concrete "headrests".

Historians, restorers, and relatives of the buried argued that "the improvement is reminiscent of demolition," and called for the protection of the cemetery.