The Number Of Cemeteries And Crematoriums In Russia Has Increased Dramatically
- 16.04.2026, 13:55
Against this background, Rosstat closed almost all demographic statistics.
More than 1 thousand new cemeteries have appeared in Russia over the last ten years. Their total number increased from 72760 to 73833. This follows from the data of the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System, cited by "Moskovsky Komsomolets". The most cemeteries at the end of 2025 were in Bashkortostan (4,761), Tatarstan (3,194) and the Smolensk region (2,524). The least of all - in Chukotka (48), Magadan region (44) and occupied Sevastopol (37). At the same time in Moscow there is one less cemetery (133 in total), and in the Moscow region - 22 (1495).
At the same time the number of crematoriums is growing. According to the Ministry of Construction, 33 state crematoria were registered in Russia in 2025, which is 10 more than in 2015. The largest number of facilities for cremation of dead bodies is in Moscow (3). There are also two crematoria each in Chelyabinsk, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk regions, Krasnodar and Primorsky Krai. At the same time, last year the authorities of St. Petersburg decided to expand the city crematorium to make it the largest in Europe. After modernization, it will be able to conduct up to 240 cremations per day.
The number of cemeteries and crematoriums is growing in Russia amid heavy casualties in the war against Ukraine, which Western intelligence reports say is the country's highest since World War II. The confirmed death toll alone has exceeded 200,000. The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates that by the end of 2025, the Russian army will have lost up to 325,000 fighters killed and, together with the wounded, 1.196 million. On average, about 35,000 Russian military personnel dropped out of the battlefield every month last year. "No war fought by the USSR or Russia since World War II even comes close to the Ukrainian war in terms of deaths," CSIS analysts noted.
In the meantime, Rosstat has closed almost all demographic statistics, including mortality data, in 2025. According to the latest available data, the population of Russia amounted to 146.1 million people, having decreased in January-March 2025 by 61.1 thousand. 288.8 thousand people were born in three months, 471.8 thousand died, natural population decline amounted to 183.3 thousand people, which was 2/3 compensated by migration growth: 121.9 thousand people.