During the Soviet era, especially from the 1930s to the 1950s, Moscow authorities actively closed and dismantled old cemeteries that found themselves in the center of the rapidly growing city. For example, Semyonovsky Park was built on the site of a cemetery of the same name – one of the largest in pre-revolutionary Moscow. Part of the cemetery was liquidated in the 1930s, while the remaining graves were exhumed and the remains cremated around 1946. Fragments of old tombstones can still be found in the park. In Timiryazevsky Park in northern Moscow, a tiny cemetery has been preserved right in the middle of the forest.