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Technology truly is reaching all corners of our lives…and even beyond.

Government officials in Moscow recently announced a plan to bring free Wi-Fi to some of Russia's most-visited cemeteries in an effort to encourage visitors to learn more about famous people buried there, according to a report in the Express Tribune. The Wi-Fi would join GPS systems installed to help visitors locate famous graves.

From the report:

Residents in Moscow already enjoy free wireless Internet in cafes and on the metro system but now authorities in the city have also decided to bring wifi to a more unusual setting — some of its most storied cemeteries.

The free services are set to start working next year for visitors of the Vagankovo, Troyekurovo and Novodevichy cemeteries, where the likes of author Anton Chekov, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and the first Russian president Boris Yeltsin are buried.

“These cemeteries are like open air museums,” Lilya Lvovskaya, a spokesperson from city-run funeral service Ritual, which runs Moscow’s graveyards, told AFP.

“People often come and find themselves standing in front of a grave and want to know more about the person lying there.”

If the wireless Internet service proves popular then the authorities will look about expanding it to the rest of the sprawling capital’s 133 cemeteries.

Read the full report at tribune.com.