Serafimovskoe Cemetery () in northwestern Saint Petersburg's Primorsky District, contains a large number of burials as well as monuments and memorials to notable figures in Soviet and Russian history.

The cemetery was created from land set aside in 1903, with the first burial taking place on 28 May 1905. It was mainly a burial location for the poor of the area, as well as soldiers and sailors who died in the First World War. It rose to prominence in the Second World War when it became a site of numerous mass graves of those who died in the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. Since then leading figures from a variety of sections of society have been interred in the cemetery. Saint Petersburg's history as a naval base have made the cemetery a popular location for naval officers. Those buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery include Giorgi Abashvili, Vladimir Alafuzov, Ivan Yumashev, and Mikhail Zakharov. There are also memorials to several maritime accidents and disasters, including the sinking of the ships Mekhanik Tarasov and Polessk, and the loss of the submarines Kursk and Komsomolets. On 6 July 2019 the fourteen men who died in a fire aboard the submarine Losharik were interred in the cemetery. A memorial also commemorates the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash, which included a large number of Soviet Navy officers. Other military figures interred in the cemetery include Soviet Air Force Lieutenant General Dmitry Alexandrovich Medvedev, two flying aces of the Korean War; Anatoly Karelin and Mikhail Mikhin, and Major General Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov, who commanded the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. Among the many other Heroes of the Soviet Union who were buried here are , , , , , and .

Numerous sportspeople have also been buried here, among whom; Olympians Valentin Boreyko, Igor Novikov, Nikolai Panin, Nikolay Puzanov, Rinnat Safin and Gennadiy Tsygankov; footballers Lev Burchalkin, Valentin Fyodorov, Vladimir Kazachyonok, Nikolai Lyukshinov, Nikolai Sokolov and Yevgeni Yeliseyev. From the world of arts, painters Dmitry Belyaev, Pavel Filonov, Boris Lavrenko, Joseph Serebriany, and Nina Veselova; actors Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Igor Dmitriev, Irina Gubanova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai Kryukov, Lev Lemke, Sergey Mikaelyan, Gennadiy Michurin, Antonina Shuranova, and Mikhail Svetin; dancers Boris Fenster, Alla Sizova, Yuri Soloviev and Sergei Vikharev; musicians Vitaly Bujanovsky, Boris Gutnikov and Yuri Morozov; and architect Iosif Langbard were all buried here. The parents of Vladimir Putin were also interred here, in 1998 and 1999.

Joint memorials commemorate the dead of various accidents and tragedies. As well as naval memorials, there are ones to those who died in the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet–Afghan War, the Chernobyl disaster, an avalanche on Lenin Peak, in the Pamir Mountains, and the 1991 fire at the hotel Leningrad.

Individuals

Military Image Name Born Died Occupation MonumentReference 1902 1965 Naval commander, admiral, Second World War, head of the Amur and , the Voroshilov Naval Academy, and the Hydrographic Service 1910 1982 Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet 1900 1966 Naval commander, admiral 1909 1998 Soviet flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union 1967 2022 Military officer, major-general 1949 2008 Security services official, KGB, FSB 1935 2024 Naval officer, admiral, commander of the Baltic Fleet, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy 1922 1974 Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union 1902 1977 Naval officer, rear-admiral, submariner, head of the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School, head of the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation. 1955 2000 Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss 1956 2000 Military officer, helicopter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Russian Federation 1918 1992 Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops 1923 2007 Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union 1949 2019 Naval officer, vice-admiral, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Northern Fleet, Kursk submarine disaster search and salvage operations. Hero of the Russian Federation. 1907 1981 Major general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, Second World War. 1908 1997 Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Baltic Fleet and the Naval Academy 1927 2009 Naval officer, admiral, deputy commander in chief of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, head of the Naval Academy 1901 1983 Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet 1939 2020 Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia 1914 1982 Naval officer, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, counter-admiral 1925 1981 Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet 1890 1957 Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the and 1901 1987 Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany 1887 1961 Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy 1903 1985 Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union 1943 2020 Naval officer, deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy 1895 1972 Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces 1912 1978 Naval officer, admiral, Second World War

Sport Image Name Born Died Occupation MonumentReference 1960 2004 Chess grandmaster, trained Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev 1933 2012 Olympic rower, 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics. 1939 2004 Football player and coach, Zenit Leningrad, USSR 1929 2017 Hockey player, coach, sports referee, and teacher 1880 1941 Figure skater, World Championships, Russian Championships, Soviet Championships 1911 1981 Football player and coach, FC Dynamo Leningrad 1952 2017 Football player and coach, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg 1915 2010 Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Dynamo Leningrad 1929 1968 Athletics, discus throw. 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics 1929 2007 Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics 1872 1956 Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics 1938 2008 Biathlete, 1968 Winter Olympics 1932 2016 Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler nine Olympic and World Championship medals 1940 2014 Biathlete, 1972 Winter Olympics 1952 1989 Speed skater. 1976 Winter Olympics, World Championships 1922 2003 Speed skater. World Championships 1943 2012 Long-distance runner, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics 1927 2004 Track and field athlete, javelin throw. World record twice in 1949, 1950 European Athletics Championships, 1949 World Festival of Youth and Students. Two-time national champion. 1897 1988 Football player, FC Dynamo Leningrad, USSR 1947 2006 Olympic ice hockey player and coach, 1972 Winter Olympics, 1976 Winter Olympics 1909 1999 Football player and coach, FC Dinamo Minsk

Arts Image Name Born Died Occupation MonumentReference 1921 2007 Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting. 1904 1983 Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. 1928 1993 Classical horn player, music teacher and composer, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Conservatory 1937 1999 Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures 1927 2008 Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Hamlet 1916 1960 Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre, Kirov Ballet 1883 1941 Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi 1940 2000 Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace, Battle of Moscow 1931 1986 Violinist, 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition, 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Leningrad Conservatory 1915 1988 Actor, film director, screenwriter. Ivan the Terrible, three times Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour 1944 1998 Stage and film actor, bard. The Woman who Sings, The General, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Natalia Krandievskaya 1888 1963 Poet and memoirist 1915 1993 Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, The Andromeda Nebula 1920 2001 Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, representative of Leningrad School of Painting 1882 1951 Architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet 1931 1996 Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Comedy Theatre 1923 2016 Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983) 1897 1970 Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953) 1948 2006 Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer 1900 1978 Actress, The Parisian Cobbler, Cinderella, Mumu 1907 1979 Painter and stage decorator, Leningrad Union of Artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Repin Institute of Arts, Leningrad School of Painting 1936 2003 Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR, An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano 1939 2014 Ballet dancer, Kirov Ballet 1940 1977 Premier danseur, Kirov Ballet 1929 2015 Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat 1913 1988 Cameraman, director and screenwriter of documentary films, People's Artist of the USSR 1922 1960 Realist painter, graphic artist, Leningrad Union of Artists, Leningrad School of Painting 1962 2017 Ballet dancer, choreographer, Mariinsky Ballet 1870 1947 Painter and graphic artist 1904 1964 Composer and music teacher

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