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Turkmenistan:
Ashgabad Cemeteries |
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1948
Earthquake Cemetery: 1948 Earthquake Cemetery is located at Soviet Sokols Street, north of Ashgabad. It is more like an abandoned cemetery and in center there is a monument for the memory of 1948 earthquake. On 1:00am, October 6, 1948, in less than a minute, Ashgabad leveled by a 9 point Richter scale earthquake and 110,000 people, more than 2/3 of its population died. For more than five years the city was closed to outsiders while dead bodies were being recovered. |
Earthquake Cemetery |
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Cemeteries
in Turkmenistan: Ashgabad: 1948 Earthquake Cemetery Gishei Cemetery Watujia Cemetery |
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