Jews have settled in Rostov-on-Don since the 19th century. By the end of the century, they made up 10% of the urban population. There were several Jewish graveyards in the city:

• Old cemetery

Founded in the first third of the 19th century. Researchers wrote that the earliest burials in the Old Jewish Cemetery date back to the 1830s. By the 1860s it was already overcrowded. The cemetery suffered from the 1905 pogroms. Then the Black Hundreds broke into the churchyard and burned some of the wooden gravestones. Later, the Old Jewish cemetery fell into disrepair and, according to eyewitnesses, turned into a garbage dump. The territory of the cemetery was built up. Nowadays, a winery is located in its place.

• New cemetery

In 1860, the Old Jewish cemetery was overcrowded, and the Jewish community turned to the authorities with a request to allocate land for burial. At the beginning of 1865, the City Duma decided to provide a plot of land adjacent to the then Main city churchyard. The cemetery was named New Jewish. According to the surviving documents, the New Jewish Cemetery was officially opened in 1867. The first burial took place on it in 1871.

The cemetery operated until 1923. In the 1940s, the city authorities decided to develop a plot of land on which the New Jewish Cemetery was located. According to local historians, relatives secretly transferred the ashes of some of those buried to the Jewish-Tatar cemetery, officially opened in 1922. So on the territory of the new churchyard were the graves of the merchant J. Hurwitz and the body of the Fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe Sholom-Dov-Ber Shneerson.

Residential buildings were erected on the territory of the New Jewish Cemetery. Nowadays on the territory of the cemetery are located the Sports Palace and the secondary school.

• Jewish-Tatar cemetery

After the closure of the New Jewish Cemetery, local authorities in 1922 allocated two plots of land in the area of ​​Tekucheva Street for the burials of Tatars and Jews. This is how the cemetery got its name. Locals also informally call the churchyard the New Jewish Cemetery.

By the 1960s, the boundaries between the Tatar and Jewish sections were not respected. The Jewish-Tatar cemetery was officially closed in 1971. However, since 1997, the authorities have allowed kinship burials on it.

• Northern cemetery

Opened in 1972 on Orbitalnaya street. Occupies an area of ​​400 hectares. There are two plots allocated for the community on it.