Kuntsevo Cemetery
The 19th-century graves
The Kuntsevo Cemetery is a cemetery servicing Kuntsevo, Moscow. It is located on the bank of the Setun River, to the south of the Mozhaisk Highway (the continuation of the Kutuzovsky Prospekt).[1] The local five-domed church was commissioned in 1673 by Artamon Matveyev. The cemetery is administered as part of the Novodevichy Cemetery complex.
Interred
Tomb of Kirill A. Yevstigneyev
- Anatoly Rybakov[2]
- Georgy Malenkov, Premier of the Soviet Union
- Leonid Gaidai[2]
- Valeri Kharlamov[2]
- Nadezhda Mandelshtam[2]
- Mark Naimark,[3] Soviet mathematician
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili[2]
- Larisa Shepitko[2]
- Lyubov Sokolova[4]
A 17th-century church - Ramón Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky
- Varlam Shalamov, Russian poet and writer, Gulag survivor
- Kim Philby, English-Soviet double agent[1]
- Paul Tatum[5]
- Iskhak Razzakov, leader of the Communist Party of Kyrghyz SSR, reburied at the Ala Archa Cemetery, Bishkek in 2000[6]
- Tankho Israelov, dancer, choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR
- Tatyana Tess (Tatyana Tass, Татьяна Тесс),[7] Soviet writer, journalist, scenarist
- Trofim Lysenko[2]
- Vsevolod Bobrov,[8]
- Glenn Michael Souther (aka Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov),[9] a spy inside the United States Navy who defected to Soviet Union [10][11]
- Morris Cohen, spy
- Lona Cohen, his wife, spy
- Kirill A. Yevstigneyev, Major General
- Yuri Trifonov[2]
- Yuri Vizbor[2]
References
- 1 2 "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby’s Grave", Passport Moscow magazine
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 List of interred at Find A Grave
- ↑ "Они тоже гостили на земле... Наймарк Марк Аронович (1909-1978)". nec.m-necropol.ru. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ↑ "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. June 29, 1989.
- ↑ Fein, Esther B. (June 28, 1989). "Defector to Moscow Is Dead; Work for K.G.B. Is Lauded". the New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ↑ Ronald Kessler (1992). The Spy in the Russian Club: How Glenn Souther Stole America’s Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscow. Pocket. ISBN 978-0-671-73890-7.
Coordinates: 55°42′28″N 37°25′0″E / 55.70778°N 37.41667°E
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