Grave care and monuments in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod (Нижний Новгород), the Volga region · 36 cemeteries in our database
Nizhny Novgorod is split by the Oka into an upper and a lower city, and its cemeteries are distributed across both. Which bank a grave is on changes the travel time considerably, and it is worth knowing before planning an installation day.
Many of the city’s older plots date from the Soviet industrial decades and carry marble-chip or concrete monuments with painted lettering. Those are the ones that photograph worst after thirty years and respond best to inexpensive work: refilling the cut and cleaning the stone changes how the grave reads completely.
How work outside Moscow is arranged
Our own crews work in Moscow and the Moscow region. In Nizhny Novgorod the work is carried out by a vetted local master, and the arrangement is deliberately built so that this does not make it riskier for you: you deal with us, you pay us, and the master is paid only after you have accepted the photo report. A first order with a new master is always a control order.
You do not need to be present at any stage, and neither does anyone else in your family. Send photographs of the plot if you have them and the details of the burial; we price the job, name a fixed figure before starting, and send the before/after report when it is done.
If you do not know where the grave is, say so. In many Russian cities burials are in an electronic register that we can search by full name — that search is free, and when the register does not cover the grave we tell you how the cemetery administration issues the information to relatives. Searching a cemetery on foot for a plot known only approximately is separate work, from ₽2,500.
Main cemeteries in Nizhny Novgorod
Names are given as they transliterate from Russian, because that is how they are searched for from abroad. Addresses are in Russian so that you can give them to a driver or to a relative without translating them back. Each links to its Russian page with coordinates, transport, opening hours and notable burials.
Other cemeteries in and around Nizhny Novgorod (28)
What we do in Nizhny Novgorod
- A new monument — stele and plinth on a prepared base from ₽20,000 for the work, with a poured foundation from ₽29,000, a complex with flower bed and slab ₽25,000–45,000.
- Resetting a monument that has tilted or sunk — from ₽8,000.
- Engraving — adding a name and dates, or restoring worn lettering and a faded portrait, from ₽1,500.
- Fencing the plot — a plain welded fence from ₽30,800, wrought iron from ₽39,800, stone from ₽65,000.
- The whole plot — surface, kerb along the boundary, flower bed in front of the monument, from ₽10,000.
- Cleaning with grass cutting — and free help working out how to locate the plot through the administration.
The quote is fixed before work begins and payment is due after you receive the photo report. More detail — monument installation, engraving, granite complexes.
Write to us from any country
Tell us the city, the cemetery if you know it, and the full name of the person buried. We reply in English. A payment method that works for your country is agreed when the order is confirmed, including payment through relatives in Russia, and payment is due after the photo report.