Vagankovo Cemetery
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Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia
Russia
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 and the old 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....

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Interred

  • Tigran Petrosian
    Tigran Petrosian
    Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet-Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of his almost impenetrable defence, which emphasised safety above all else...

     (1929–1984), Ninth World Chess Champion (1963–1969)
  • Inga Artamonova
    Inga Artamonova
    Inga Grigoryevna Artamonova was a Soviet speed skater, the first four-time Allround World Champion in women's speed skating history. After her marriage in 1959 to fellow speed skater Gennady Voronin , she was also known as Inga Voronina ....

     (1936–1966), world speed-skating champion
  • Grigori Chukhrai
    Grigori Chukhrai
    Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.-Career:He was born in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine...

     (1921–2001), film director
  • Vladimir Dal
    Vladimir Dal
    Vladimir Ivanovich Dal was one of the greatest Russian language lexicographers. He was a founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. He knew at least six languages including Turkic and is considered to be one of the early Turkologists...

     (1801–1872), lexicographer
  • Sergei Grinkov
    Sergei Grinkov
    Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov was a Russian pair skater. Together with partner Ekaterina Gordeeva, he was the 1988 and 1994 Olympic Champion and four-time World Champion.-Biography:...

     (1967–1995), world & Olympic ice skating pairs champion
  • Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov
    Leonid Kharitonov (actor)
    Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov was a Soviet actor whose stage name was Leonid Kharitonov. He was notable for his part in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin na tseline and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist of the RSFSR .-Life:See image...

     (1930-1987), actor
  • Bulat Okudzhava
    Bulat Okudzhava
    Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author song"...

     (1924–1997), poet and singer-songwriter
  • Lyudmila Pakhomova
    Lyudmila Pakhomova
    Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova was an ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner Alexandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion.-Biography:...

     (1946–1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion
  • Mikhail Pugovkin
    Mikhail Pugovkin
    Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin was a Soviet/Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.He studied in the Moscow Art Theatre school under Ivan Moskvin, took part in World War II and, following demobilisation, was featured in the 1944 all-star cast adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The...

     (1923–2008), actor
  • David Shterenberg
    David Shterenberg
    David Petrovich Shterenberg was a Ukrainian-born Russian painter and graphic artist.Born to a Jewish family in Zhitomir, Ukraine, Shterenberg studied art in Odessa and then from 1906-1912 based himself in Paris where he studied with, amongst others, Kees van Dongen...

     (1881–1948, artist
  • Vasily Surikov
    Vasily Surikov
    Vasily Ivanovich Surikov was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects...

     (1848–1916), painter
  • Alexei Savrasov
    Alexei Savrasov
    Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.-Biography:Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant...

     (1830–1897), painter
  • Vitaly Solomin
    Vitaly Solomin
    Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was the younger brother of Yury Solomin....

     (1941–2002), actor
  • Igor Talkov
    Igor Talkov
    Igor Vladimirovich Talkov , was a Russian rock singer-songwriter.He is often compared to another Russian singer and songwriter of that time, Viktor Tsoi, whom, according to his diaries, Talkov highly appreciated and to whom he even dedicated a song on his death...

     (1956–1991), poet, singer-songwriter
  • Vasily Tropinin
    Vasily Andreevich Tropinin
    Vasily Andreevich Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old...

    , (1776–1857), painter
  • Vladimir Vysotsky
    Vladimir Vysotsky
    Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street...

     (1938–1980), actor, singer
  • Leonid Yengibarov
    Leonid Yengibarov
    Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov was a Soviet clown and actor.Leonid Yengibarov was born in Moscow to an Armenian father and a Russian mother. He started his career as a boxer. In 1955 he joined the State School of Circus Art, Clownship department...

     (1935–1972), clown, actor
  • Sergei Yesenin
    Sergei Yesenin
    Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet. He was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century but committed suicide at the age of 30...

     (1895–1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan
    Isadora Duncan
    Isadora Duncan was a dancer, considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. Born in the United States, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and only later in her life...

  • Gennady Shpalikov
    Gennady Shpalikov
    Gennady Fyodorovich Shpalikov was a Soviet Russian poet and a screenwriter.Born in the town of Segezha, he moved to Moscow with his parents in 1939. In the fall of 1941, he was evacuated to the Kirghiz SSR, together with the Academy of Military Engineers, where his father, Fyodor Grigorievich...

     (1937–1974), poet, screenwriter
  • Anna Timiryova
    Anna Timiryova
    Anna Vasilyevna Timiryova was a Russian poetess. Born Anna Safonova, she was the daughter of composer Vasily Ilyich Safonov. At age 19 she married admiral Sergey Nikolayevich Timiryov, whom she divorced in 1918 to join her lover, Admiral Alexander Kolchak. After Kolchak's assassination, she was...

    (1893-1975), poet


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