Osovtsy is a Gomel cemetery, which occupies 36 hectares of territory. Burials on it were officially terminated in 2009. You cannot buy or reserve a plot here, but subburials of no more than two in one plot are allowed. Triple burials require special permission from the city executive committee.

The cemetery is conventionally divided into two parts: the new and the old. The latter was heavily overgrown with trees, which, according to local tradition, were planted by relatives near the graves.

Since 2002, burial site maintenance rules have prohibited tree planting. Moreover, in 2015, the administration of the Soviet district of Gomel, on the territory of which the cemetery is located, held a public hearing on the issue of cutting down more than 220 trees in the cemetery territory, as they fell and destroyed graves. The new part of the cemetery is in the field.

Osovtsy are known for two monuments to the fallen Belarusian pilots. In the center there is a concrete pedestal painted blue with an airplane on the edge and the names of the AN-24b pilots who died in a plane crash in 1976. Also in the cemetery, there is a monument to the crew of the An-24 Gomel-avia plane, which died in Sri Lanka in 1998.

A significant part of the graves in Osovtsy is black granite slabs with engraved photographs of the deceased.

There is a Jewish site in the cemetery. It is cataloged. 7495 graves are included in the electronic register. Of these, 225 with incomplete data. They have no anthroponomical or chronological data. Of those 225, 200 have no data. The rest have either part of anthroponomical data, or dates of birth or death.

The earliest graves at the Jewish site Osovtsy date back to the 1940s. In particular, the burial of Aksanov Yakov Shlemovich (1895-1940). The grave with partially preserved data, on which is written "Folya Moiseevich", is dated 1941. No information about the surname and date of birth has been preserved. There are also the graves of Aibinder Lev Borisovich (1925-1943) and Azarov Boris Kh. (1921-1944), which indicate that burials at the cemetery were carried out regularly in the 1940s.

The most recent burials date back to 2010, when the cemetery was officially closed for burials. These are the graves of Babushkina Berta Izrailevna (1928-2012), Bastrikova Taisiya Menandrovna (1926-2013) and Kossovskaya Lyubov Markovna (1927-2014).