Kuntsevo Cemetery
| Kuntsevo Cemetery | |
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Кунцевское кладбище | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 17th century |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Coordinates | 55°42′28″N 37°25′00″E / 55.70778°N 37.41667°E |
| Size | 17 hectares (42 acres) |
The Kuntsevo Cemetery (Russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, romanized: Kúntsevkoye kládbishche) 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
- Vsevolod Bobrov (1922–1979),[2]
- Andrei Chabanenko (1909–1986), Soviet naval officer[3]
- Lona Cohen (1913–1992), wife of Morris Cohen, spy
- Morris Cohen (1910–1995), spy
- Leonid Gaidai (1923–1993), film director
- Fedor Gusev (1905–1987)[4]
- Tankho Israelov (1917–1981), dancer, choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR
- Valeri Kharlamov (1948–1981)
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili (1960–2000)
- Leonid Lubennikov (1910–1988), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
- Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976)
- Georgy Malenkov (1902–1988), Premier of the Soviet Union
- Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov (1923–2008), First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Nadezhda Mandelshtam (1899–1980)
- Ramón Mercader (1913–1978), assassin of Leon Trotsky
- Mark Naimark (1909–1978),[5] Soviet mathematician
- Kim Philby (1912–1988), English-Soviet double agent[1]
- Iskhak Razzakov (1910–1979), leader of the Communist Party of the Kyrgyz SSR, reburied at the Ala-Archa Cemetery, Bishkek in 2000[6]
- Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998)
- Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), Russian poet and writer, Gulag survivor
- Larisa Shepitko (1938–1979)
- Lyubov Sokolova (1921–2001)
A 17th-century church - Glenn Michael Souther (aka Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov) (1957–1989),[7] a spy inside the United States Navy who defected to Soviet Union[8][9]
- Paul Tatum (1955–1996), American businessman murdered in Moscow[10]
- Yuri Trifonov (1925–1981)
- Nikolai Vinogradov (1905–1979), Soviet naval officer[11]
- Yuri Vizbor (1934–1984)
- Kirill A. Yevstigneyev (1917–1996), Major General
- Maxim Martsinkevich (1984–2020)
- Yevgeny Morgunov (1927–1999), actor
References
- ^ a b "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby's Grave". www.passportmagazine.ru.
- ^ An excerpt The Moscow Times, Jule 12, 2000
- ^ Kinzhakov, Ivan (3 February 2018). "Чабаненко Андрей Трофимович" [Chabanenko Andrei Trofimovich]. elita-army.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "ГУСЕВ Фёдор Тарасович (1905–1987)". moscow-tombs.ru (in Russian).
- ^ "Они тоже гостили на земле... Наймарк Марк Аронович (1909–1978)". nec.m-necropol.ru. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ Central Eurasian Studies Review, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1/2
- ^ "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.
- ^ Imaging Russia 2000: film and facts By Anna M. Lawton p. 105 at Google Books
- ^ "Виноградов Николай Игнатьевич" [Vinogradov Nikolai Ignatievich]. elita-army.ru (in Russian). 2 February 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2019.