Ghencea Cemetery

Ghencea Military Cemetery
Romania
The entrance to the military section
For the Heroes of the Wars
Location	Bucharest, Romania
Burials by war
World War I World War II

Ghencea Cemetery is located in Ghencea neighbourhood of Bucharest, on Ghencea Boulevard, in Sector 6. The cemetery has two sections, civilian^[1] and military.^[2]

Notable interments[edit]

• Cabiria Andreian Cazacu, mathematician
• Gheorghe Argeșanu, general and statesman
• Niki Atanasiu [ro], actor
• Mihai Baicu, footballer
• Grigore Bălan, general in World War II
• Iolanda Balaș, athlete and Olympic champion
• Maria Butaciu, performer of folklore music
• Gianu Bucurescu [ro], Securitate officer
• Cornelia Catangă, singer
• Elena Ceaușescu, communist activist and wife of President Nicolae Ceaușescu
• Nicolae Ceaușescu, first President of Romania
• Nicu Ceaușescu, communist politician and third son of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
• Mihai Chițac, general and Minister of the Interior
• Lucreția Ciobanu [ro], folk singer from Sibiu
• Mihai Constantinescu [ro], musician
• Florența Crăciunescu, Olympic athlete
• Gheorghe Cucu [ro], composer, conductor, and folklorist
• Ion Dincă, communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mayor of Bucharest
• Aimée Iacobescu, actress
• Mihaela Mitrache, actress
• Mariana Nicolesco, operatic soprano
• Angelo Niculescu, football player and manager
• Alexis Nour, journalist, activist, and essayist
• Gheorghe Pintilie, first Director of the Securitate
• Temistocle Popa, composer, musician, and film actor
• Cristian Popescu, poet
• Tudor Postelnicu, communist politician, Director of the Securitate, Interior Minister
• Ilie Savu, footballer and coach
• Alexandru Șerbănescu, flying ace in World War II
• Iosif Sîrbu, sport shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion
• Niculae Spiroiu, general and Minister of Defense
• Toni Tecuceanu, comedy actor
• Costică Toma, footballer and coach
• Nicolae Tonitza, painter and illustrator
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater Romania Party, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament
• Olimpian Ungherea [ro], writer
• Ștefan Vencov [ro], physicist and rector of Politehnica University
• Ilie Verdeț, Prime Minister of Romania
• Iulian Vlad [ro], Securitate chief

Gallery[edit]

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  Former grave of Nicolae Ceaușescu
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  Entrance to the Ghencea Civilian Cemetery
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  Grave in Ghencea cemetery, with Masonic symbol
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  Grave of Alexandru Șerbănescu
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  Grave of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu

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References[edit]

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