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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.

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Earthquake Cemetery
 

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Cemeteries in Turkmenistan:
Ashgabad:

1948 Earthquake Cemetery
Gishei Cemetery
Watujia Cemetery




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