Vagankovo Cemetery

Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia and the old Soviet Union.

Interred

• Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), Ninth World Chess Champion (1963–1969)
• Inga Artamonova (1936–1966), world speed-skating champion
• Grigori Chukhrai (1921–2001), film director
• Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), lexicographer
• Sergei Grinkov (1967–1995), world & Olympic ice skating pairs champion
• Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov (1930-1987), actor
• Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), poet and singer-songwriter
• Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946–1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion
• Mikhail Pugovkin (1923–2008), actor
• David Shterenberg (1881–1948, artist
• Vasily Surikov (1848–1916), painter
• Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), painter
• Vitaly Solomin (1941–2002), actor
• Igor Talkov (1956–1991), poet, singer-songwriter
• Vasily Tropinin, (1776–1857), painter
• Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), actor, singer
• Leonid Yengibarov (1935–1972), clown, actor
• Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan
• Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974), poet, screenwriter
• Anna Timiryova (1893-1975), poet

External links

Cemetery Vagankovo