Notable burials: A–C

Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907–1948), mountaineer and sculptor Alexei Abrikosov (1875–1955), physician and pathologist Andrei Abrikosov (1906–1973), actor Grigori Abrikosov (1932–1993), actor Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), first Soviet space industry minister Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), KGB officer and foreign spy Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), writer Vsevolod Aksyonov (1902–1960), actor Karo Alabyan (1897–1959), architect Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946), founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble Boris Alexandrov (1905–1994), leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble Abraham Alikhanov, (1904–1970), physicist Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), writer Averky Aristov (1903–1973), politician and diplomat Coretti Arle-Titz (1883-1951), singer and actress Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010), mathematician Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), writer Nikolai Basistiy (1898–1971), naval admiral Pavel Batov (1897–1985), army general Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), writer Andrei Bely (1880–1934), writer Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), cosmonaut Mark Bernes (1911–1969), actor and singer Aleksandr Blagonravov (1906–1962), military engineer Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), writer Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), actor and director Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), journalist and businessman Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995), chess champion Valeriy Brumel (1942–2003), athlete champion Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), writer Serafima Bryusova (1894–1958), first female neurosurgeon Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), playwright and author Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Marshal of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), neurosurgeon Rolan Bykov (1929–1998), actor Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), opera singer Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), writer Vladimir Chelomei (1914–1984), rocket engineer Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Nobel laureate in Physics Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), General of the Army Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), statesman Inna Churikova (1943-2023), Actress

Notable burials: D–G

Yakov Dashevsky (1902–1972), army general Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), army general Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), painter and sculptor Lev Dovator (1903–1941), army general Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician and civil servant Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), composer and conductor Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), writer G. El-Registan (1899–1945), poet Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), film director Ivan Fadeev (1906–1976), long-term finance minister Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), writer Klavdia Fomicheva, (1917–1958), WWII pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), writer Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), politician Shakir Geniatullin (1895–1946), army general Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), film director Emil Gilels (1916-1985), pianist Vitaly Ginzburg (1916-2009), Nobel laureate in Physics Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), composer Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), spacecraft and rockets designer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), writer Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022), Last Leader of the Soviet Union and former President of the Soviet Union Raisa Gorbacheva (1932–1999), former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union and wife of Mikhail Gorbachev Ivan Gren (1898–1960), vice-admiral Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935–2011), popular actress, singer and entertainer

Notable burials: H–K

Nazim Hikmet (1901–1963), Turkish poet Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962–2017), opera singer Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), writer Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aeroplanes designer Archie Johnstone (1896-1963), journalist Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), composer Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991), last of the Old Bolsheviks Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), helicopters designer Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Nobel Prize–winning economist Lev Kassil (1905–1970), writer Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), writer Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906–1979), founder of sambo Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), poet Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), Leader of the Soviet Union (1953–1964) Sergei Khrushchev (1935–2020), engineer and academic, son of Nikita Khrushchev Igor Kio (1944–2006), illusionist Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904–1985), distinguished Soviet test pilot Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), eminent mathematician Boris Korolev (1885–1963), avant-garde sculptor Olga Knipper (1868–1959), actress Rustam Khan Khoyski (1888–1948), Minister of Social Security of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), violin virtuoso Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician Pavel Korin (1892–1967), painter and art restorer Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Marshal of the Soviet Union Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944), the knapsack parachute inventor Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), air force general Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), opera singer Ernst Krenkel (1903–1971), explorer and radio operator Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (1950–2003), ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), film theorist and director Vladimir Krinsky (1890–1971), artist and architect

Notable burials: L–O

Lev Landau (1908–1968), Nobel laureate in Physics Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), army general and politician Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), computer pioneer Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), poet and singer Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii (1881–1948), director of Glavlit Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Hero of the Russian Federation, chief of commission that investigated 1986 Chernobyl disaster Sergei Lemeshev (1902–1977), opera singer Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), actor Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), painter Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio announcer Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), politician Matvey Manizer (1891–1966), Socialist realist sculptor Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), flying ace Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), writer, translator and children's poet Ekaterina Maximova (1939–2009), prima ballerina Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet Victor Merzhanov (1919–2012), pianist Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), politician and former premier Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), sculptor Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), missile/weapon engineer and designer Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), theater director Grigory Nikulin (1895–1965), Bolshevik revolutionary and chekist Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), clown and actor Alexander Novikov (1900–1976), Air Force Marshal Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), puppeteer Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), geologist, geographer and explorer Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), writer Nikolay Ogarkov (1917–1994), Marshal and Chief of the Soviet General Staff (1977–1984) David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violin virtuoso Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), scientist Lyubov Orlova (1902–1975), actress Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), writer Arkady Ostrovsky (1914-1967), composer

Notable burials: P–R

Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), army general Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), actor Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), poet and jazz musician Vera Pashennaya (1887–1962), actress of theater and cinema Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), female sniper Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), army general Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), mathematician Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), Air Force marshal Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (1892–1944), aircraft constructor Vitaly Popkov (1922–2010), pilot Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1971), high-ranked Communist Party functionary Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), composer Aleksandr Ptushko (1900–1973), film director Vyacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), chessplayer Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), stand up comedian Irina Rakobolskaya (1919–2016), chief of staff all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment in WWII; physicist Aleksandr Razumny (1891–1972), film director Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), pianist George de Roerich (1902–1960), tibetologist Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), film director Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), cellist Elena Rozmirovich (1886–1953), politician Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), pianist and composer Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), folk singer

Notable burials: S

Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), army general and politician Ivan Samylovsky (1905–1971), diplomat Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), scientist Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), composer Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), composer Ivan Sechenov (1829–1905), physiologist Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), politician Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), explorer Valentin Serov (1865–1911), writer and artist Boris Shcherbina (1919–1990), politician, oversaw recovery efforts after 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Spitak earthquake Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), architect Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), composer Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), politician Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), civil engineer Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), writer and actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), actor Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), general Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), tenor and director of the Bolshoi Theatre Sergei Sokolov (1911–2012), Marshal of the Soviet Union, defense minister Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), philosopher Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), theater director Alexei Starobinsky (1948-2023), theoretical physicist and cosmologist Pavel Sukhoi (1895–1975), aerospace engineer Leopold Sulerzhitsky (1872–1916), theater practitioner Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), poet Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), composer

Notable burials: T–Z

Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), heroic army lieutenant Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), composer Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet and playwright Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), historian Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), painter and architect Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), choreographer Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), politician Gherman Titov (1935–2000), cosmonaut, second man in space Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), writer Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), businessman and art collector Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), aircraft designer Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), writer Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), prima ballerina Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), military judge Mikhail Ulyanov (1927–2007), actor Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), theater director Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), politician and businessman Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), physicist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), mineralogist and a geochemist Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957), singer Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), filmmaker Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), mathematician Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012), operatic soprano & wife of Mstislav Rostropovich Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896–1934), psychologist Boris Yefimov (1899/1900–2008), political cartoonist Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), the first president of the Russian Federation Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), actor Yakov Yurovsky (1878–1938), chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), poet Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), chemist Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946-2022), politician and lawyer Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), actor