There are about two dozen cemeteries in Minsk. Some of them are cemeteries, which work on a limited basis. These include the Eastern cemetery. It is located in the area of ​​the Moskovskoye highway; therefore, it bears the unofficial name Moskovskoye. The area of ​​the necropolis is over 23 hectares. According to rough estimates, 28 thousand people are buried there.

The cemetery has been open since 1952 and for a long time was the main necropolis of the republic. The most prominent political and state figures of Belarus, as well as representatives of the sports and creative elite found their last refuge here.

The cemetery was officially closed in 2003. Since then, burials on it have been possible either in the honorary sector, where a place is reserved for people who have merit to the state and society, or in existing sites. According to the rules adopted at the cemetery, re-burial is made in the same grave no earlier than 20 years after the previous one. It is also allowed to burial in a free place of an existing site, or burial urns with ashes in existing graves. In the latter case, there are no restrictions on the number of burials.

There is a Jewish sector in the Eastern cemetery. The graves are cataloged here. The electronic catalog contains more than 470 graves with full or partial anthroponomical and chronological data.

About two dozen more graves are without surnames. One of them does not contain either anthroponomical or chronological data, in three, presumably, patronymics are indicated: Abramovich (buried in 1960), Aronovich (1894-1953) and Zuselevna (1895-1960). In the rest, you can read the name and patronymic, as well as one or two dates.

In another seven cases, chronological data are missing. All of them belong to the second half of the 20th century. Except for the grave of Esfir Iosifovna, on which 1931 is indicated as the date of burial. It can be assumed that there were burials at the Vostochnoye Cemetery before its official opening. A number of other burials confirms this. In particular, Vidgortsik Movsha F. (1872-1941) and Weinstein Mikhail Grigorievich (1910-1944).

Also noteworthy is the grave of Anatoly Vladimirovich (1947-2008). Here the absence of a surname is more difficult to explain.

Late burials date back to the 21st century. In particular, these are the graves of Semyon Lvovich Vishnevsky (1928-2014) and Vladimir Iosifovich German (1925-2014).