{{Short description|Cemetery in Elva, Estonia}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox cemetery | name = Elva Cemetery | native_name = Elva kalmistu | native_name_lang = et | image = The main gate of Elva cemetery.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | established = 1924 | country = Estonia | location = Elva | coordinates = | latitude = | longitude = | type = | style = | owner = | size = | graves = | interments = | cremations = | leases = | website = | political = }}

'''Elva Cemetery''' ({{langx|et|Elva kalmistu}}) is a cemetery in a forest park on the edge of the city of Elva, Estonia. The address of the cemetery is ''Vaikne tänav'' 39.

==History== Elva Cemetery was established in 1924.<ref name="Joosep">{{cite news |last1=Joosep |first1=Arnold |title=Elva kalmistu ajaloost |url=https://dea.digar.ee/cgi-bin/dea?a=d&d=elvapostip20130907.1.5&e=-------et-25--1--txt-txIN%7ctxTI%7ctxAU%7ctxTA------------- |access-date=July 24, 2024 |work=Elva postipoiss |issue=2 |date=September 7, 2013 |page=5}}</ref><ref name="Haudi">{{cite web |title=Elva kalmistu |url=https://www.kalmistud.ee/Elva-linna-kalmistu |website=Kalmistute register Haudi|access-date=July 24, 2024}}</ref> The main gate was designed by Hanno Kompus in 1934.<ref name="Haudi"/> The new part of the cemetery was designed by the landscape architect {{ill|Nora Tammoja|et}}.<ref name="Haudi"/>

==Notable people== Notable people interred at Elva Cemetery include the following: {{colbegin}} *Leopold Hansen (1879–1964), actor and theater director<ref name="Joosep"/> *Richard Janno (1900–1942), writer and journalist *Ain Kaalep (1926–2020), writer *Jaan Kärner (1891–1958), writer *Ivan Kondakov (1857–1931), chemist<ref name="Joosep"/> *{{ill|Hugo Kulbok|et}} (1890–1942), soldier (cenotaph) *{{ill|Jim Ollinovski|et}} (1974–1993), writer *{{ill|Daniel Palgi|et}} (1899–1988), literary critic *Jaan Rommot (1941–2010), television director *Johannes Silvet (1895–1979), linguist<ref name="Joosep"/> *Karl-Johannes Soonpää (1895–1944), politician and civil servant *{{ill|Ants Sööt|et}} (1935–2013), choir director *{{ill|Endel Varep|et}} (1915–1988), geographer<ref name="Joosep"/> *{{ill|Ago Viljari|et}} (1910–1989), theologian *{{ill|Charles Villmann|et}} (1923–1992), physicist and astronomer *{{ill|Vadim Želnin|et}} (1909–1996), meteorologist<ref name="Joosep"/> {{colend}}

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Category:Cemeteries in Estonia Category:Cultural heritage of Estonia Category:Elva Parish

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