Vagankovo Cemetery

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

• Nadezhda Lamanova (1861-1941), fashion and costume designer
• Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964), musician, author of the song "Farewell of Slavianka"
• 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 Kharitonov (1930–1987), actor
• Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), poet and singer-songwriter, writer
• Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946–1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion
• Mikhail Pugovkin (1923–2008), actor
• Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), painter
• Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974), poet, screenwriter
• David Shterenberg (1881–1948), artist
• Vitaly Solomin (1941–2002), actor
• Nikolai Starostin (1902–1996), footballer
• Vasily Surikov (1848–1916), painter
• Igor Talkov (1956–1991), poet, singer-songwriter
• Anna Timiryova (1893–1975), poet
• Vasily Tropinin (1776–1857), painter
• Lev Vlassenko (1928–1996), pianist
• Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), poet, singer-songwriter, actor
• Vasily Yan (1876–1954), writer
• Leonid Yengibarov (1935–1972), clown, mime, actor
• Yakov Rozval (1932-2015), engineer, inventor
• Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan

Coordinates: 55°46.05′N 37°32.54′E / 55.76750°N 37.54233°E / 55.76750; 37.54233

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