Sebesh

The war cemetery is located six kilometers east of the small town of Sebesh on the road to Opochka. The large city of Pskov is about 150 kilometers away in the northwest of Russia near the border with Latvia.

On the four-hectare site, the Volksbund has created one of the last cemeteries intended for Russia. A granite-paved path leads through a covered entrance to the memorial site with a metal cross. The names and dates of the identified dead are listed in alphabetical order on natural stone steles on the cemetery blocks. The occupied cemetery blocks are also marked with groups of symbolic crosses.

The names of the deceased who were not recovered during the reburials are listed in a memorial name book. There is a bilingual memorial plaque by a pond.

36.198 dead from the Second World War are buried at the Sebesh military cemetery. German casualties from the Pskov, Velikiye Luki, Opochka and Nevel regions were reburied at the site. The Volksbund estimates that around 30,000 to 40,000 dead from the period between 1941 and 1944 are buried there. Further burials will follow.

Landscaping work began in 2004 and the military cemetery was inaugurated on September 8, 2007. A memorial service was held there on September 9, 2017. By December 31, 2016, 34,991 dead had been buried there and steles with 18,477 names had been inscribed.

Vinzent Cieluch is the 900,000 war dead buried in Sebesh that the War Graves Commission has recovered in Eastern Europe since the signing of the German-Russian War Graves Agreement in 1992. He fell at the age of 32 as a member of the 323rd Infantry Regiment on March 10, 1944 in Shestovo, leaving behind his wife and a young son. On September 9, 2017, he was one of five people buried at the war cemetery. A plaque in two languages and a granite cross of light were erected for the Pskov region to commemorate prisoners of war.