The necropolis at the Kremlin Wall

The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is a memorial cemetery on Red Square in Moscow, near the Kremlin Wall, which serves as a columbarium for urns with ashes. It is the burial place of key state, party and military figures of the Soviet state and participants of the October Revolution of 1917. In the 1920s and 1930s, foreign authors and journalists such as writer and journalist John Reed, founder of the Japanese Communist Party Katayama Senu, revolutionary Clara Zetkin and German politician Fritz Haeckert were buried here. Communist revolutionaries from abroad were also buried here. Since 1974, the necropolis has been protected by the state as a cultural monument.