Burial
This Federal Law defines burial as ritual actions for interring a human body (remains) after death in accordance with customs and traditions not conflicting with sanitary and other requirements. Burial may be carried out by committing the body (remains) to earth (burial in a grave or mausoleum), fire (cremation followed by burial of an urn containing ashes), or water (burial in water in accordance with normative legal acts of the Russian Federation)
Source: Federal Law No. 8-FZ dated January 12, 1996 (as amended on July 28, 2012) "On Burial and Funeral Affairs"