NIKOPOL

NIKOPOL I:     US Commission No. UA03030101
Alternate name: Nikitin Rog, Slavyansk (Polish), Nikitin Rog, Slavyansk (Russian) and Mykitin. Nikopol is located in Dnepropetrovskaya. Rig, Slavyansk (Ukraine). The town is location at 47.34 º34.24 . Nikopol is 107 km from Dnepropetrovsk. The cemetery is located at Gagarina Street, 49a, the territory of delivery's house. Present town population is over 100,000 with 1,001-10,000.
-- Town officials: Town Executive Council, 332918, Pravdy Street, 3-Mitchenko Ivan Kuzmich. Town Executive Council, 332918, Pravdy Street 3. Shvedkov Konstantin Ivanovich-Museum.
-- Regional: Oblast Dept. of Culture of 320000, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirova pr. 3.
-- Others: Bogush Pavel Mikhaylovich of 332918, Nikopol, Sevastopolskaya, 16.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 1782. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 2699. The Jewish cemetery was established in the 19th century with last known Conservative Jewish burial 1940. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by Town street, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for delivery house. Properties adjacent are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939. The cemetery was vandalized frequently in the last 10 years. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: existing nearby development (delivery house).
     Shevelev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Central Blvd. 25, apt. 54 [Phone: (0612) 396982] visited site on 14/02/1995. Interviewed was Bogush Pavel Mikhaylovich of 332918, Nikopol, Sevastopolskaya Street, 16 on 14/02/1995. Shevelev completed site on 04/03/1995.
NIKOPOL II:     US Commission No. UA03030102
     The cemetery is located at 40 let Oktyabrya pr. 102. The Conservative Jewish cemetery was established in the 19th century with last known Jewish burial 1940s. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by town street, access is entirely closed. There is no gate. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for auto-base. Properties adjacent are commercial or industrial. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of commercial-industrial development. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: existing nearby development (On the territory of cemetery is auto-base).      Shevelyev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Central Blvd. 25, Apt. 54 [Phone: (0612) 396982] visited site on 14/02/1995. Interviewed was Bogush Pavel Mikhaylovich of 332918, Nikopol, Sevastopolskaya Street, 16 on 14/02/1995. Shevelyev completed survey on 04/03/1995.
NIKOPOL III:     US Commission No. UA03030103
     The cemetery is located at Kuksina Street 49 (First Lapinskaya Street) Rest Home. The last known Conservative Jewish burial was 1950s. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by town street, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for Rest Home. Properties adjacent are recreational. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of commercial-industrial development. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: existing nearby development (On the territory of cemetery is Rest Home).
     Shevelyev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Central Blvd. 25, Apt. 54 [Phone: (0612) 396982] visited site on 14/02/1995. Interviewed was Bogush Pavel Mikhaylovich of 322918, Nikopol, Sevastopolskaya Street, 16 on 14/02/1995. Shevelyev completed survey on 04/03/1995.
NIKOPOL IV:     US Commission No. UA03030501
     The mass grave is located NE, on Dnepropetrovsk Highway, near the railroad. The Conservative Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. Jews from no other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked mass grave. The isolated urban flat land has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by town street, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. 1 to 20 stones, all in original location with no surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1975. No stones were removed. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns mass burial property. Properties adjacent are agricultural and residential. Rarely, local residents visit site. This mass grave has not been vandalized. Occasionally, authorities clean or clear. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures.
     Shevelyev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Central Blvd. 25, Apt. 54 [Phone: (0612) 396982] visited site on 15/02/1995. Interviewed was Milyavskiy Matvey Saveliyevich of 322900, Nikopol, V.Usova Street, 4, apt. 66 on 15/02/1995. Shevelyev completed survey on 05/03/1995.