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To see for yourself that Russians do not live easy lives in Shanghai, you need only visit the cemetery, where new graves appear one after another, and the damp yellow clay is already heavy with the bones of Russian wanderers…K. V. Shendrikova, On the Occasion of Tonight’s Ball. Shanghai, 12 May 1931
Necropolis of Russian Shanghai is an English-language online extension of the study by Dr. Victoria Sharonova, Nekropol Russkogo Shanhaia (Шаронова В. Г. "Некрополь русского Шанхая", Москва, 2013). In addition to 1062 records from the book, the online database lists records from obituaries, émigré registration cards, police reports, genealogy databases and communication with descendants of Shanghai Russians. Presently there are 2320 persons in the database.
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Top image: Columbarium Habitabile, by Brodsky & Utkin, 1989.
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