Case file · Sacred site
Rebbe Nachman's grave and the Uman pilgrimage
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov died in Uman in 1810, promising that he would help anyone who came to his grave, gave charity and said the ten psalms of the 'General Remedy'; tens of thousands of Hasidim now travel there every Rosh Hashanah.
1810 CE · 48.75, 30.21 · status: official
The account
The pilgrimage continued secretly in Soviet times and grew enormously after 1989, even during the war years since 2022. Uman was also the site of the 1768 massacre by Haidamaky rebels, and the grave lies near the mass graves of that event.