Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
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The Troyekurovskoye Cemetery , sometimes called the Novo-Kuntsevskoye Cemetery , is a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

. It is located next to the Moscow Highway Ring Road
MKAD
MKAD is a ring road encircling the City of Moscow.The acronym is a transliteration of the Russian МКАД, for Московская Кольцевая Автомобильная Дорога .The growth of traffic in and around Moscow in the 1950s made the city planners realise Russia's largest metropolis...

, in the former village of Troyekurovo, on the edge of western Moscow
Moscow
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. It is administered as a branch of the Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It is next to the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. It should not be confused with the Novodevichy Cemetery in Saint Petersburg....

.

The village takes its name from the Troyekurov princely family, a branch of the Rurikid House of Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...

, that owned the village in the 17th century. The cemetery includes the Church of Saint Nicholas. The church was built by Prince Troyekurov in 1699-1704, closed during the Soviet time, and finally returned to the faithful in 1991.

Notable graves

  • Nina Alisova
    Nina Alisova
    Nina Ulyanovna Alisova was a Soviet actress. After her death, she was laid to rest at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.-Selected filmography:* Without Dowry * Rainbow...

    , Russian actress.
  • Gennady Bachinsky
    Gennady Bachinsky
    Gennady Nikolaevich Bachinsky was a Russian radio talk show host and producer.Bachinsky was born in Yarovoye in the Altai Krai, he originally trained as a systems engineer. He started his radio career in St. Petersburg where he co-hosted several popular shows with Sergei Stillavin in the 1990s...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n radio talk show
    Talk radio
    Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...

     host and producer
    Radio producer
    A radio producer oversees the making of a radio show. There are two main types of producer. An audio or creative producer and a content producer. Audio producers create sounds and audio specifically, content producers oversee and orchestrate a radio show or feature...

    .
  • Grigory Baklanov
    Grigory Baklanov
    Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was a Russian novelist and editor, well known for his novels about World War II and as the editor of the literary monthly Znamya during the time of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.-Biography:Baklanov was born Grigory Yakovlevich Friedman in Voronezh...

    , Russian writer.
  • Viktor Bortsov
    Viktor Bortsov
    Viktor Andreyevich Bortsov was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia.Viktor Bortsov was best known as Savva Ignatevich in the 1982 film Pokrov Gates ....

    , Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor.
  • Galina Dzhugashvili
    Galina Dzhugashvili
    Galina Yakovlevna "Galya" Dzhugashvili was a Russian translator of French. She was the granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, the daughter of Stalin's eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. She consistently challenged widely-accepted accounts of her father's internment and death at a Nazi prison...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n translator of French
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

    .
  • Semyon Farada
    Semyon Farada
    Semyon L'vovich Ferdman, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.- Early life :Ferdman was born into the Jewish family of Army officer Lev Ferdman and pharmacist Ida Shuman. His father died when Semyon was 14. Later he tried to pursue a military...

    , Russian actor.
  • Konstantin Feoktistov
    Konstantin Feoktistov
    Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration...

    , Russian cosmonaut.
  • Vladislav Galkin
    Vladislav Galkin
    Vladislav Galkin was a Russian actor in theatre and cinema.-Death:Galkin was known to indulge in alcohol for some time before his death, and it definitely played a major role in his demise, thought until recently to be the only role. But, there is a new twist to the case...

    , Russian film actor.
  • Vasily Grossman
    Vasily Grossman
    Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels...

    , Soviet-era writer and journalist
  • Natalia Gundareva, Russian actress.
  • Roman Abelevich Kachanov
    Roman Abelevich Kachanov
    Roman Abelevich Kachanov was a Russian animator, one of the founders and leaders of Russian stop-motion animation.Kachanov was the director and screenwriter of the trilogy about Cheburashka, Gena the Crocodile and Shapoklyak.- Early years :...

    , Russian animator.
  • Dmitry Kholodov
    Dmitry Kholodov
    Dmitry Yuryevich Kholodov was educated as a physicist and began his working life, alongside his parents, at the defence industry institute in Klimovsk in the Moscow Region. Faced by limited career prospects he turned to journalism, first working for the local radio. In 1992 he became a reporter...

    , journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     of the Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n newspaper
    Newspaper
    A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

     Moskovskij Komsomolets, killed as he was investigating alleged corruption
    Political corruption
    Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Neither are illegal acts by...

     among high ranks of the Russian military
    Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
    The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are the military services of Russia, established after the break-up of the Soviet Union. On 7 May 1992 Boris Yeltsin signed a decree establishing the Russian Ministry of Defence and placing all Soviet Armed Forces troops on the territory of the RSFSR...

    .
  • Elem Klimov
    Elem Klimov
    Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. He is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See , a powerful tale of a teenage boy in German-occupied Byelorussia during the German-Soviet War,...

    , Soviet Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    .
  • Andrey Kozlov, was the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
    Central Bank of the Russian Federation
    The Bank of Russia or the Central Bank of The Russian Federation is the central bank of The Russian Federation. Its functions are described in the Russian constitution and in the special Federal law...

     from 1997 to 1999 and again in 2002 to 2006.
  • Ilya Kormiltsev
    Ilya Kormiltsev
    Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev - d. February 4, 2007, London, UK) was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher.Kormiltsev is most famous for working as songwriter and producer in Nautilus Pompilius, one of most popular rock bands in Soviet Union and, later, Russia...

    , Russian poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , translator, and publisher.
  • Sergei P. Kurdyumov
    Sergei P. Kurdyumov
    Sergey Pavlovich Kurdyumov was a specialist in mathematical physics, mathematical modeling, plasma physics, complexity studies and synergetics from Moscow, Russia....

    , specialist in mathematical physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

    , mathematical modeling, plasma physics, complexity
    Complexity
    In general usage, complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement. The study of these complex linkages is the main goal of complex systems theory. In science there are at this time a number of approaches to characterizing complexity, many of which are...

     studies and synergetics.
  • Mikhail Lapshin
    Mikhail Lapshin
    Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin was the President of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006.Lapshin was born in Setovka, Altai Krai. He became President of the Altai Republic in January 2002. He defeated incumbent Semyon Zubakin in the December 2001 elections with 68% of the vote...

    , President of the Altai Republic
    Altai Republic
    Altai Republic is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the town of Gorno-Altaysk. The area of the republic is . Population: -Geography:...

     in Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

     from 2002 to 2006.
  • Yuri Levada
    Yuri Levada
    Yuri Alexandrovich Levada was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center.-Scientific activity to 1988:In 1952 Levada graduated from the Philosophical faculty of the Moscow State University....

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n sociologist and politologist.
  • Georgy Millyar
    Georgy Millyar
    Georgy Frantsevich Millyar, sometimes spelled Milliar , was a Soviet/Russian actor, best known for playing evil spirits in Soviet fairy tale films....

    , Russian film actor.
  • Vyacheslav Nevinny
    Vyacheslav Nevinny
    Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny was a popular Russian actor titled a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. He worked in the Moscow Art Theatre from 1959 until his death.-Biography:...

    , Russian actor.
  • Anna Politkovskaya
    Anna Politkovskaya
    Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin...

    , Russian rusophobe journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

    , author and human rights
    Human rights
    Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

     activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict
    Second Chechen War
    The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus, was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade ....

     and then-Russian President Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

    .
  • Lyubov Polishchuk
    Lyubov Polishchuk
    Lyubov Grigoryevna Polishchuk was a popular Russian actress.She was born in the Siberian city of Omsk. After school she decided to become an actress and moved to Moscow. She made her debut in cinema in 1976 in the popular comedy film 12 stulyev in 1977, which was directed by Mark Zakharov.Lyubov...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n actress.
  • Pavel Popovich
    Pavel Popovich
    - Biography :He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Soviet Union . to Roman Porfirievich Popovich and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonov. He had two sisters and two brothers ....

    , the 8th person in space.
  • Anatoly Pristavkin
    Anatoly Pristavkin
    Anatoly Ignatovich Pristavkin was a Russian writer.His mother died when he was nine and his father died in World War II, leaving Anatoly orphan. Anatoly Pristavkin had to start working from the age of 14 onwards, and had various jobs. Nevertheless, he started a career as a writer in 1961 and...

    , Russian writer.
  • Yuli Raizman
    Yuli Raizman
    Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman was a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter. His film Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Selected filmography:* The Earth Thirsts...

    , Russian film director.
  • Boris Rybakov
    Boris Rybakov
    Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian historian who personified the anti-Normanist vision of Russian history....

    , Soviet archaeologist and historian.
  • Nikolay Rybnikov, Russian film actor.
  • Genrikh Sapgir
    Genrikh Sapgir
    Genrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer.-Biography:He was born in Biysk to a family of a Moscow engineer on a business trip. The family returned to Moscow fairly soon....

    , Russian poet.
  • Daniil Shafran
    Daniil Shafran
    -Early years:Daniil Shafran was born in Petrograd in 1923. Even from before his birth he was surrounded by music. His mother and father were music students when he was born. His father, Boris Shafran, went on to be principal cellist of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Frida...

    , Jewish Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n cellist
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

    .
  • Natalia Shvedova
    Natalia Shvedova
    Natalia Yulievna Shvedova was a Russian lexicographer who authored several standard outlines of Russian grammar, for which she was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982....

    , Russian lexicographer.
  • Sergei Suponev
    Sergei Suponev
    Sergei Yevgenyevich Suponev was TEFI-awarded Soviet and Russian television director, children's television presenter and a mananger of child programms subdivision on Channel One.-Biography:...

    , TV host.
  • Valentina Tolkunova
    Valentina Tolkunova
    Valentina Tolkunova was a Soviet and Russian singer and was bestowed the title of Honored Artist of RSFSR and People's Artist of RSFSR . Her performances exhibited a kindhearted mood and sincerity, and her voice was noted for its clarity....

    , Russian singer.
  • Yevgeny Vesnik
    Yevgeny Vesnik
    Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik was a Russian and Soviet stage and a film actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in the Second World War...

    , Russian actor.
  • Boris Zakhoder
    Boris Zakhoder
    Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder was a Soviet poet and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other children's classics.- Biography :...

    , Russian children's writer.
  • Sergey Zalygin, Russian novelist.

Public and political figures

  • Viktor Chebrikov
    Viktor Chebrikov
    Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov ) was a Soviet Union public official and security administrator and head of the KGB from December 1982 to October 1988....

    , Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     spy
    SPY
    SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...

     and head of the KGB
    KGB
    The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

     from 1982 to 1988.
  • Vitaly Fedorchuk, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     administrator
    Administration (government)
    The term administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction.-United States:In United States usage, the term refers to the executive branch under a specific president , for example: the "Barack Obama administration." It can also mean an executive branch agency...

    . He was chairman of the KGB
    KGB
    The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

     in 1982. He then became the Soviet interior minister from 1982 until 1986.
  • Boris Fyodorov, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n economist, politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , and reformer.
  • Andrei Kirilenko
    Andrei Kirilenko (politician)
    Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was a Soviet statesman from the start to the end of the Cold War. In 1906, Kirilenko was born in Alexeyevka, Belgorod Oblast, Russian Empire, to a Russian working class family. He graduated in the 1920s from a local vocational school, and again in the mid-to-late 1930s...

    , leading official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

     in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.
  • Gennady Kolbin
    Gennady Kolbin
    Gennady Kolbin was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR from December 16, 1986 to June 22, 1989.Kolbin had not worked in the Kazakh SSR prior to his appointment...

    , First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
    Communist party
    A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

     of Kazakh SSR
    Kazakh SSR
    The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Kazakh SSR for short, was one of republics that made up the Soviet Union.At in area, it was the second largest constituent republic in the USSR, after the Russian SFSR. Its capital was Alma-Ata . Today it is the independent state of...

  • Nikolay Kruchina
    Nikolay Kruchina
    Nikolay Yefimovich Kruchina - August 26, 1991, Moscow), was a top Soviet communist official, the administrator of affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1983 and until his death, effectively the party's chief treasurer who was responsible for its...

    , top Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     communist official, the administrator of affairs of the Central Committee
    Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tse-ka", earlier was also called as the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party ...

  • Vladimir Kryuchkov
    Vladimir Kryuchkov
    Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was a former Soviet politician and Communist Party member, having been in the organization from 1944 until he was dismissed in 1991...

    , Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     politician and Communist Party
    Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

     member, dismissed in 1991 for his role in the failed coup against Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

    .
  • Pyotr Latyshev
    Pyotr Latyshev
    Pyotr Mikhaylovich Latyshev was the Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District, Russia.Latyshev was born in 1948 in Proskurov , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic...

    , Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District
    Urals Federal District
    Ural Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. The district is mostly located in the geographical region of Ural, but also includes some parts of the Volga Region; its extent is different...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    .
  • Yuri Maslyukov
    Yuri Maslyukov
    Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...

    , the last Gosplan
    Gosplan
    Gosplan or State Planning Committee was the committee responsible for economic planning in the Soviet Union. The word "Gosplan" is an abbreviation for Gosudarstvenniy Komitet po Planirovaniyu...

     chairman.
  • Boris Pugo, Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

    n Communist
    Communism
    Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

     political figure.
  • Vladimir Semichastny
    Vladimir Semichastny
    Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny was the head of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967....

    , Chief of the KGB
    KGB
    The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

     from November 1961 to April 1967.
  • Georgy Shakhnazarov
    Georgy Shakhnazarov
    Georgy Khosroevich Shakhnazarov was a Soviet-Armenian politician and political scientist. He was one of the half-dozen aides closest to Mikhail Gorbachev both while he was Soviet leader and after his fall from power at the collapse of the Soviet Union...

    , Soviet politician and political scientist
  • Anatoliy Tyazhlov
    Anatoliy Tyazhlov
    Anatoliy Tyazhlov was a Russian politician who served as the Governor of Moscow Oblast from 1991 until 2000. He died on July 28, 2008, at the age of 66.- External links :*...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     who served as the Governor
    Governor of Moscow Oblast
    The following is a list of the Governors of Moscow Oblast.-List:*Anatoliy Tyazhlov *Boris Gromov...

     of Moscow Oblast
    Moscow Oblast
    Moscow Oblast , or Podmoskovye , is a federal subject of Russia . Its area, at , is relatively small compared to other federal subjects, but it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and, with the 2010 population of 7,092,941, is the second most populous federal subject...

     from 1991 until 2000.
  • Alexander Yakovlev
    Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
    Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev was a Soviet politician and historian who was a Soviet governmental official in the 1980s and a member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n economist, chief of party ideology
    Ideology
    An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...

    , sometimes called the "godfather of glasnost
    Glasnost
    Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s...

    "
  • Gennady Yanayev
    Gennady Yanayev
    Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev was a Soviet Russian politician and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years. Yanayev was born in Perevoz, Gorky Oblast...

    , the only Vice President of the Soviet Union

Military

  • Timur Apakidze
    Timur Apakidze
    Timur Avtandilovich Apakidze , Russian major general, deputy commander of naval aviation and Hero of the Russian Federation.-Biography:...

    , Russian major general
    Major General
    Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

    , deputy commander of naval aviation
    Soviet Naval Aviation
    Soviet Naval Aviation was a part of the Soviet Navy.- Origins :...

     and Hero of the Russian Federation
    Hero of the Russian Federation
    Hero of the Russian Federation is a Russian decoration and the highest honorary title that can be bestowed on a citizen by the Russian Federation. The President of the Russian Federation is the main conferring authority of the medal, which is bestowed on those committing actions or deeds that...

    .
  • Sergei Akhromeyev
    Sergei Akhromeyev
    Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was a soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union , Marshal of the Soviet Union .Akhromeyev was a Naval Infantry junior officer during the German-Soviet War, serving with distinction on the Leningrad front. At one point he was ordered to guard and hold a road on...

    , Hero of the Soviet Union
    Hero of the Soviet Union
    The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...

     (1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union
    Marshal of the Soviet Union
    Marshal of the Soviet Union was the de facto highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ....

     (1983).
  • Vasily Dzhugashvili
    Vasily Dzhugashvili
    Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili , known also as Vasily Stalin , , was the son of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva....

    , General, son of Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

     and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.
  • Lev Rokhlin
    Lev Rokhlin
    Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin was a Lieutenant-General in the Soviet and Russian armies.Rokhlin have reached the top of the Russian military, quickly rose through the ranks during and after the Soviet war in Afghanistan...

    , Lieutenant-General in the Soviet
    Soviet Army
    The Soviet Army is the name given to the main part of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1992. Previously, it had been known as the Red Army. Informally, Армия referred to all the MOD armed forces, except, in some cases, the Soviet Navy.This article covers the Soviet Ground...

     and Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n armies.
  • Igor Sergeyev
    Igor Sergeyev
    Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev was the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation from 22 May 1997 until 28 March 2001...

    , Defense Minister of the Russian Federation from 1997 until 2001. He was the first and as of 2008 the only Marshal of the Russian Federation
    Marshal of the Russian Federation
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    .
  • Valentin Varennikov
    Valentin Varennikov
    Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov was a Soviet/Russian general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, as well as one of the instigators of the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.-Early life:Valentin Varennikov was born to a poor Cossack family...

    , Soviet General of the Army
    General of the Army
    General of the Army is a military rank used in some countries to denote a senior military leader, usually a General in command of a nation's Army. It may also be the title given to a General who commands an Army in the field....

    , Hero of the Soviet Union
    Hero of the Soviet Union
    The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...

  • Mikhail Vodopianov, Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     aircraft pilot, one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union
    Hero of the Soviet Union
    The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.-Overview:...

    , and a Major General of the Soviet Air Force
    Soviet Air Force
    The Soviet Air Force, officially known in Russian as Военно-воздушные силы or Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily and often abbreviated VVS was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces...

    .

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