The cemetery was razed, and the graves were never moved. Since the mid 1990's, the church was returned to the Orthodox Church, and some of the graves have been located, and temporary crosses replaced. In 2018, the city was installing new communication pipes, and uncovered more wooden coffins from the late 1700 to mid 1850's, with plenty of interesting artifacts found..

Успенский монастырь (Тула)
Менделеевская ул., 13, корп. 1
Тула, Россия

In 1921 the Assumption Monastery was closed by the Soviet anti Christian leaders. The Znamenskaya Church, the bell tower, walls and towers, most of the monastery buildings, and the necropolis were robbed and destroyed by the Soviet - Bolshevik Terrorists, under the guidance of Lenin and Trotsky, Stalin.
Spaso-Preobrazhensky in Soviet times was used as a warehouse, then as a building of a marine school, Assumption Cathedral - as a repository of the State Archives of the Tula Region.

In 1974, the Transfiguration Cathedral received the status of an architectural monument of federal significance. In the 1980s, some parts of the facade of the Assumption Cathedral were restored. In 1991, it also received the status of an architectural monument of federal significance.

Currently, both churches (that were salvaged), have been transferred to the orthodox church.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Успенский_монастырь_(Тула)
https://sobory.ru/article/index.php?object=00827
https://svoykray.ru/churchs/tula/svyato-uspenskij-kafedralnyij-sobor-tula
https://proreligiu.club/hramy/rossiya/uspenskij-sobor-v-tule.html
http://www.tulainpast.ru/memories/row1205/
https://tula.aif.ru/culture/history/nikogda_ne_zabudesh_istoriya_uspenskogo_sobora_v_tulskom_kremle
https://myslo.ru/news/arhiv/article-4848
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