Kuntsevo Cemetery

The Kuntsevo Cemetery (Russian: Ку́нцевское кла́дбище, 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.

The 19th-century graves

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, assassin of Leon Trotsky
• Varlam Shalamov, Russian poet and writer, Gulag survivor
• Kim Philby, English-Soviet double agent[1]
• Paul Tatum, American hotelier businessman[5]
• Iskhak Razzakov, leader of the Communist Party of the Kyrgyz 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]
• Andrei Chabanenko, Soviet naval officer[12]
• Nikolai Vinogradov, Soviet naval officer[13]
• Yuri Vizbor[2]
• Leonid Lubennikov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic

References

1. "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby’s Grave", Passport Moscow magazine
2. List of interred at Find A Grave
3. "Они тоже гостили на земле... Наймарк Марк Аронович (1909–1978)". nec.m-necropol.ru. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
4. "Lyubov Sokolova" at Find A Grave
5. Imaging Russia 2000: film and facts By Anna M. Lawton p. 105 at Google Books
6. Central Eurasian Studies Review, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1/2
7. Bio of sculptor Lyubov Muravyeva (Lyubov Muravyeva) who created a monument to Tatyana Tess
8. An excerpt The Moscow Times, Jule 12, 2000
9. "KGB Says Defector Killed Self Over Psychological Problems; 'He ... Displayed a Nervous State of Mind'". The Washington Post. June 29, 1989.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Kinzhakov, Ivan (3 February 2018). "Чабаненко Андрей Трофимович" [Chabanenko Andrei Trofimovich]. elita-army.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 9 April 2019.
13. "Виноградов Николай Игнатьевич" [Vinogradov Nikolai Ignatievich]. elita-army.ru (in Russian). 2 February 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

External links

• Kuntsevo Cemetery at Find a Grave