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Four Soviet servicemen are buried in Section H of Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire. All four died in 1945: Nikolay Gorin (Grave 90), Ameos Lobshanidze (Grave 107), Shota Kardava (Grave 108) and Konstantin Korsilava (Grave 109) — three consecutive graves and one nearby.
Address: Blacon Ave, Blacon, Chester CH1 5BB.
Each man has his own record on this platform, carrying his grave reference and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and OBD Memorial record numbers under which he is registered. The burials were documented through the platform's own burial-research curation.
What this page does not claim
- A complete count of Soviet graves at this cemetery. Four are held on this platform; the cemetery register is the authority on the total.
- Verification of the CWGC and OBD Memorial record numbers against those registers. They are reproduced from the veteran records, where they were entered by the platform's burial research; the CWGC pages could not be captured.
- Coordinates. Not captured from a source and deliberately left empty rather than estimated.
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Buried here
- Konstantin Korsilava
FROM THE RECORD“Private Konstantin Korsilava (1916 – 10 April 1945) is buried at Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire, England — Section H, Grave 109.”
- Nikolay Gorin
FROM THE RECORD“Private Nikolay Gorin (1925 – 1 March 1945) is buried at Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire, England — Section H, Grave 90.”
- Shota Kardava
FROM THE RECORD“Private Shota (Sota) Kardava (1924 – 26 May 1945) is buried at Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire, England — Section H, Grave 108.”
- Ameos Lobshanidze
FROM THE RECORD“Private Ameos Lobshanidze (1917 – 29 May 1945) is buried at Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire, England — Section H, Grave 107.”
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