Kuntsevo Cemetery
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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
- Anatoly Rybakov[2]
- Georgy Malenkov, Premier of the Soviet Union
- Leonid Gaidai[2]
- Valeri Kharlamov[2]
- Nadezhda Mandelshtam[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]
- Tankho Israelov, dancer, choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR
- Tatyana Tess (Tatyana Tass, Татьяна Тесс),[6] Soviet writer, journalist, scenarist
- Trofim Lysenko[2]
- Vsevolod Bobrov,[7]
- Glenn Michael Souther (aka Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov),[8] a spy inside the United States Navy who defected to Soviet Union [9][10]
- Morris Cohen, spy
- Lona Cohen, his wife, spy
- Kirill A. Yevstigneyev, Major General
- Yuri Trifonov[2]
- Yuri Vizbor[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby’s Grave", Passport Moscow magazine
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 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
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