Grave of Russian engineer Sergey Velichkin in the underground crypt of the Dormition Church at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. Engineer Sergey Antipovich Velichkin, born June 26, 1874, lived in exile in Czechoslovakia after the Bolshevik Revolution and supervised the construction of the Dormition Church in 1924-1925. He died at age 70 on June 11, 1944. The Dormition church at the Olsany Cemetery was built in 1924-1925 by the Russian white emigre. The underground crypt was used as a burial place for the most notable persons of the Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia.

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