Old Christian Cemetery

Burials at the cemetery were held until the second half of the 1880s, then were banned due to lack of space; prominent personalities, with special permission, and immediate relatives of those already buried were buried until the cemetery was destroyed in the 1930s. About 200 thousand people were buried at the cemetery, including the first builders and the first inhabitants of Odessa. Old city cemeteries divided according to the creed of the deceased — Christian, Jewish (the first burials on the Jewish cemetery complex dated to 1792), Karaite, Muslim, and separate burial sites of suicides killed by the plague and military — appeared in Odessa during its inception at the very end of the Transfiguration streets. Over time, the territory of these cemeteries merged together and this cemetery began to be called the Old, First, or Transfiguration Cemetery of Odessa