 In 1964 the cemetery was entirely flattened under the order of Soviet authorities.Gravestones were used to build walls along the ports and sidewalks in other parts of the city and no trace of the cemetery was left standing.Soviet forces in a coordinated effort to remove all traces of the past, non ethnic Russian, inhabitants of Tallinn also destroyed two further 18th century cemeteries in the city, in the suburbs of Kopli and Mõigu which belonged to the ethnic Estonian and Baltic German communities.