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Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: Cmentarz na Rossie) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. Since 1990 new burials are allowed only to family graves.
1769 is widely cited in many sources as the date when the cemetery was founded.
In 1920 a small military cemetery was built near the entrance for the soldiers who died in the city during the Polish-Bolshevik War and Polish-Lithuanian War.
Until September 18, 1939, when the Red Army entered the city, a honorary guard of three soldiers stood there at all times. Three unknown soldiers who refused to give up their arms to the Soviets in 1939 were shot on the spot and are now buried next to Marshal Piłsudski's heart.
There are many famous Poles, Lithuanians, and Belarusians buried there, including over fifty Vilnius University professors.