Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

The Cimetière de Liers was created as the second communal cemetery on February 8, 1879 in the city of Sainte Geneviève des Bois in France, 25 km south from Paris.

To house the burials of the White Russians who arrived in Paris after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, some of the land was granted in 1927 to an English benefactress, Dorothy Paget who had set up with Elena Orlov and her sister Princess Vera Meshchersky a still active retirement home for Russian émigrés nearby in the Château de la Cossonnerie.

In 1938–39 Albert Benois designed the Dormition Church (Église de la Dormition-de-la-Mère-de-Dieu)[2] which serves the cemetery.

[3] Since the 1960s, the municipal authorities have periodically attempted to close the cemetery, claiming that the grounds are needed for public services.

There are military divisions (on the map indicated with CM, which is an abbreviation of carrés militaires) such as for The cemetery is located on Rue Léo Lagrange in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.