Kuntsevo Cemetery
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Kuntsevo Cemetery is a cemetery servicing Moscow, Russia. It is located by Ryabinovaya Street, south off the Mozhaisk Highway (the continuation of the Kutuzovsky Prospekt).[1]
[edit] Interred
- Leonid Gaidai[2]
- Valeri Kharlamov[2]
- Nadezhda Mandelshtam[2]
- Anatoly Rybakov[2]
- Yuri Trifonov[2]
- Yuri Vizbor[2]
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili[2]
- Larisa Shepitko[2]
- Lyubov Sokolova[3]
- Ramón Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky
- Varlam Shalamov, Russian poet and writer, Gulag survivor
- Kim Philby, English-Soviet double agent[1]
- Paul Tatum[4]
- Iskhak Razzakov, leader of the Communist Party of Kyrghyz SSR, reburied at the Ala Archa Cemetery, Bishkek in 2000[5]
- Tatyana Tess (Tatyana Tass, Татьяна Тесс),[6] Soviet writer, journalist, scenarist
- Vsevolod Bobrov, [7]
- Glenn Souther (Glenn Michael Souther, aka Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov) [8], a United States Navy defector to Soviet Union [9]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby’s Grave", Passport Moscow magazine
- ^ a b c d e f g h List of interred at Find A Grave
- ^ "Lyubov Sokolova" at Find A Grave
- ^ Imaging Russia 2000: film and facts By Anna M. Lawton p. 105 at Google Books
- ^ Central Eurasian Studies Review, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1/2
- ^ Bio of sculptor Lyubov Muravyeva (Lyubov Muravyeva) who created a monument to Tatyana Tess
- ^ An excerpt The Moscow Times, Jule 12, 2000
- ^ "KGB Says Defector Killed Self Over Psychological Problems;`He ... Displayed a Nervous State of Mind'" The Washington Post; Jun 29, 1989
- ^ " Defector to Moscow Is Dead; Work for K.G.B. Is Lauded", the New York Times, June 28, 1989
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