Serafimovskoe Cemetery (Russian : Серафимовское кладбище ) in northwestern Saint Petersburg 's Primorsky District , contains a large number of burials as well as monuments and memorials to notable figures in Soviet and Russian history.
The cemetery was created from land set aside in 1903, with the first burial taking place on 28 May 1905. It was mainly a burial location for the poor of the area, as well as soldiers and sailors who died in the First World War .[1] It rose to prominence in the Second World War when it became a site of numerous mass graves of those who died in the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944.[1] Since then leading figures from a variety of sections of society have been interred in the cemetery. Saint Petersburg's history as a naval base have made the cemetery a popular location for naval officers. Those buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery include Giorgi Abashvili , Vladimir Alafuzov , Ivan Yumashev , and Mikhail Zakharov . There are also memorials to several maritime accidents and disasters, including the sinking of the ships [ru ] and Polessk , and the loss of the submarines Kursk and Komsomolets . On 6 July 2019 the fourteen men who died in a fire aboard the submarine Losharik were interred in the cemetery.[2] A memorial also commemorates the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash , which included a large number of Soviet Navy officers. Other military figures interred in the cemetery include Soviet Air Force Lieutenant General Dmitry Alexandrovich Medvedev , two flying aces of the Korean War ; Anatoly Karelin and Mikhail Mikhin , and Major General Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov , who commanded the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany . Among the many other Heroes of the Soviet Union who were buried here are [ru ] , [ru ] , [ru ] , [ru ] , [ru ] , and [ru ] .[1]
Numerous sportspeople have also been buried here, among whom; Olympians Valentin Boreyko , Igor Novikov , Nikolai Panin , Nikolay Puzanov , Rinnat Safin and Gennadiy Tsygankov ; footballers Lev Burchalkin , Valentin Fyodorov , Vladimir Kazachyonok , Nikolai Lyukshinov , Nikolai Sokolov and Yevgeni Yeliseyev . From the world of arts, painters Dmitry Belyaev , Pavel Filonov , Boris Lavrenko , Joseph Serebriany , and Nina Veselova ; actors Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova , Aleksandr Demyanenko , Igor Dmitriev , Irina Gubanova , Pavel Kadochnikov , Nikolai Kryukov , Lev Lemke , Sergey Mikaelyan , Gennadiy Michurin , Antonina Shuranova , and Mikhail Svetin ; dancers Boris Fenster , Alla Sizova , Yuri Soloviev and Sergei Vikharev ; musicians Vitaly Bujanovsky , Boris Gutnikov and Yuri Morozov ; and architect Iosif Langbard were all buried here. The parents of Vladimir Putin were also interred here, in 1998 and 1999.[3]
Joint memorials commemorate the dead of various accidents and tragedies. As well as naval memorials, there are ones to those who died in the Siege of Leningrad , the Soviet–Afghan War , the Chernobyl disaster , an avalanche on Lenin Peak , in the Pamir Mountains , and the 1991 fire at the hotel Leningrad .[1] [4] [3]
Individuals [ ]
Military [ ]
Image
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Giorgi Abashvili
1910
1982
Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II , deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet
[5]
Vladimir Alafuzov
1900
1966
Naval commander, admiral
[6]
Alexander Grigoryev
1949
2008
Security services official, KGB , FSB
[7]
Anatoly Karelin
1922
1974
Pilot, Korean War flying ace , Hero of the Soviet Union
[8]
Gennady Lyachin
1955
2000
Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss
[9]
Dmitry Medvedev
1918
1992
Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union , Second World War , Strategic Missile Troops
[10]
Mikhail Mikhin
1923
2007
Pilot, Korean War flying ace , Hero of the Soviet Union
[11]
Mikhail Motsak
1949
2019
Naval officer, vice-admiral, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Northern Fleet , Kursk submarine disaster search and salvage operations. Hero of the Russian Federation .
[12]
Yuri Panteleyev
1901
1983
Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War , commander of the Pacific Fleet
[13]
Vasily Savvin
1939
2020
Colonel general , Ministry of Internal Affairs , first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia
[14]
Emil Spiridonov
1925
1981
Naval officer, admiral , commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
[15]
Georgy Stepanov
1890
1957
Naval officer, vice-admiral , commander of the [ru ] and [ru ]
[16]
Sergei Tiulpanov
1901
1987
Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
[17]
Nikolai Yegipko
1903
1985
Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union
[18]
Ivan Yumashev
1895
1972
Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union , Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces
[19]
Mikhail Zakharov
1912
1978
Naval officer, admiral, Second World War
[20]
Sport [ ]
Image
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Konstantin Aseev
1960
2004
Chess grandmaster , trained Maya Chiburdanidze , Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev
[21]
Valentin Boreyko
1933
2012
Olympic rower , 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics .
[22]
Lev Burchalkin
1939
2004
Football player and coach, Zenit Leningrad , USSR
[23]
Valentin Fyodorov
1911
1981
Football player and coach, FC Dynamo Leningrad
[23]
Vladimir Kazachyonok
1952
2017
Football player and coach, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
[24]
Nikolai Lyukshinov
1915
2010
Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad , FC Dynamo Leningrad
[25]
Igor Novikov
1929
2007
Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics , 1960 Summer Olympics , 1964 Summer Olympics
[26]
Nikolai Panin
1872
1956
Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics
[23]
Nikolay Puzanov
1938
2008
Biathlete , 1968 Winter Olympics
[23]
Rinnat Safin
1940
2014
Biathlete , 1972 Winter Olympics
[27]
Nikolai Sokolov
1897
1988
Football player, FC Dynamo Leningrad , USSR
[28]
Gennadiy Tsygankov
1947
2006
Olympic ice hockey player and coach, 1972 Winter Olympics , 1976 Winter Olympics
[23]
Yevgeni Yeliseyev
1909
1999
Football player and coach, FC Dinamo Minsk
[29]
Arts [ ]
Image
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Dmitry Belyaev
1921
2007
Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation , member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists , representative of the Leningrad School of Painting .
[23]
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
1904
1983
Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR .
[23] [30]
Vitaly Bujanovsky
1928
1993
Classical horn player, music teacher and composer, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra , Leningrad Conservatory
[31]
Aleksandr Demyanenko
1937
1999
Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR , Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures
[23]
Igor Dmitriev
1927
2008
Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR , Hamlet
[23] [32]
Boris Fenster
1916
1960
Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre , Kirov Ballet
[23]
Pavel Filonov
1883
1941
Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi
[23]
Irina Gubanova
1940
2000
Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace , Battle of Moscow
[33]
Boris Gutnikov
1931
1986
Violinist, 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition , 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition , Leningrad Conservatory
[23]
Pavel Kadochnikov
1915
1988
Actor, film director, screenwriter. Ivan the Terrible , three times Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR , Hero of Socialist Labour
[23] [34]
Nikolai Kryukov
1915
1993
Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR , The Andromeda Nebula
[23]
Boris Lavrenko
1920
2001
Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation , Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture , representative of Leningrad School of Painting
[23]
Iosif Langbard
1882
1951
Architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR , St. Petersburg Academy of Arts , Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet
[23] [35] [36]
Lev Lemke
1931
1996
Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation , Leningrad Comedy Theatre
[23]
Sergey Mikaelyan
1923
2016
Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983)
[37]
Gennadiy Michurin
1897
1970
Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953)
[23]
Yuri Morozov
1948
2006
Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer
[23]
Joseph Serebriany
1907
1979
Painter and stage decorator, Leningrad Union of Artists , People's Artist of the Russian Federation , Repin Institute of Arts , Leningrad School of Painting
[23]
Antonina Shuranova
1936
2003
Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR , An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
[23] [38]
Alla Sizova
1939
2014
Ballet dancer, Kirov Ballet
[39]
Yuri Soloviev
1940
1977
Premier danseur, Kirov Ballet
[23]
Mikhail Svetin
1929
2015
Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat
[40]
Nina Veselova
1922
1960
Realist painter, graphic artist, Leningrad Union of Artists , Leningrad School of Painting
[41]
Sergei Vikharev
1962
2017
Ballet dancer, choreographer, Mariinsky Ballet
[42]
Sciences [ ]
Image
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Antonina Borissova
1903
1917
Botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia
[23]
Mikhail Budyko
1920
2001
Climatologist , one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956)
[23]
Alexey Bystrow
1899
1959
Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana
[23]
Ekaterina Czerniakowska
1892
1942
Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants
[43]
Andrey Fedorov
1908
1987
Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer
[23]
Lev Fink
1910
1988
Physicist
[23]
Mikhail Gurevich
1893
1976
Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau
[44] [23]
Moisey Kirpicznikov
1913
1995
Botanist
[23]
Yevgeny Korotkevich
1918
1994
Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour , Soviet Antarctic Expedition , Russian Geographical Society
[45]
Sergey Kravkov
1894
1942
Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War
[46]
Afrikan Krishtofovich
1885
1953
Paleobotanist , fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932)
[47] [48] [23]
Nikolai Kudryavtsev
1893
1971
Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory
[49]
Ivan Meshchaninov
1883
1967
Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
[50]
Konstantin Petrzhak
1907
1988
Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University , spontaneous fission of uranium
[51]
Ilya Petrushevsky
1898
1977
Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
[23]
Mikhail Popov
1893
1955
Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia
[23]
Boris Schischkin
1886
1963
Botanist, Leningrad University , Schischkinia
[52]
Ruslan Skrynnikov
1931
2009
Historian, Ivan the Terrible , Time of Troubles
[53]
Vasily Struve
1889
1965
Orientalist
[23] [54]
Lev Zinder
1904
1995
Linguist, specialist in German philology
[23]
Politics and business [ ]
Group memorials [ ]
Notes [ ]
^ a b c d Kobak & Piryutko. Исторические кладбища Петербурга . p. 640.
^ "Russia buries naval crew killed in nuclear sub fire amid secrecy over their mission" . BBC News . 6 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019 .
^ a b Danilova. The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia . pp. 167–169.
^ Kelly. St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past . p. 314.
^ "АБАШВИЛИ Георгий Семёнович" . spb-tombs-walkeru.narod.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Григорьев Александр Андреевич (1949 – 2008)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Алафузов, Владимир Антонович" . elita-army.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Карелин, Анатолий Михайлович" . warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Лячин, Геннадий Петрович" . warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Медведев, Дмитрий Александрович" . warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Михин, Михаил Иванович" . warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Вице-адмирала Михаила Моцака похоронят на Серафимовском кладбище" (in Russian). yandex.ru . Retrieved 3 November 2019 .
^ Skritskii, Nikolai. "ПАНТЕЛЕЕВ ЮРИЙ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ. Командующий Беломорской и Волжской флотилиями" . Флагманы Победы. Командующие флотами и флотилиями в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945 (in Russian). Retrieved 12 April 2019 .
^ "В северной столице простились с первым командующим внутренними войсками МВД России генерал-полковником Василием Саввиным" (in Russian). Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti . 28 February 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020 .
^ Koshelev, S. "ЧЕРНЫЙ ФЕВРАЛЬ" (in Russian). Morskaya Gazeta. Retrieved 8 April 2019 .
^ "СТЕПАНОВ Георгий Андреевич (1890-1957)" (in Russian). biografiaru. Retrieved 13 April 2019 .
^ Kuznetsova, N. P.; Pardon, I.; Pardon, M. (2017). "СЕРГЕЙ ИВАНОВИЧ ТЮЛЬПАНОВ: К 115-ЛЕТИЮ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ". Вестник Санкт-Петербургского Университета экономика (in Russian). 33 (1): 168.
^ "Египко, Николай Павлович" (in Russian). warheroes.ru. Retrieved 13 May 2019 .
^ "Юмашев, Иван Степанович" . warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Захаров Михаил Николаевич" . elita-army.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 6 April 2019 .
^ "Spb: ПРОЩАНИЕ" . Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2019 .CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )
^ "Борейко, Валентин Васильевич" . sport-strana.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar "Серафимовское кладбище, Санкт-Петербург" . timenote.info (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Церемония прощания с Владимиром Казачёнком состоится 30 марта" . footballtop.ru (in Russian). 28 March 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "ЛЮКШИНОВ Николай Михайлович" . infosport.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "НОВИКОВ Игорь Александрович" . infosport.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Сафин Ринат Ибрагимович (1940 – 2014)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "СОКОЛОВ Николай Евграфович" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Елисеев, Евгений Иванович" . sport-strana.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Богданова-Чеснокова Гликерия Васильевна 1904-1983" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Буяновский Виталий Михайлович (1928 – 1993)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Actor Igor Dmitriyev Passed Away" . russia-ic.com . 28 January 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Губанова Ирина Игоревна (1940-2000)" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Кадочников Павел Петрович" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Лангбард Иосиф Григорьевич" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Лангбард Иосиф Григорьевич (1892 – 1951)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "На "Ленфильме" простились с Сергеем Микаэляно��" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Шуранова Антонина Николаевна" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Сизова Алла Ивановна" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Светин Михаил Семёнович (1930-2015)" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Веселова Нина Леонидовна (1922 – 1960)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "В Петербурге прощаются с балетмейстером Мариинского театра Сергеем Вихаревым" . 5-TV.ru (in Russian). Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
^ "ВОЗВРАЩЁННЫЕ ИМЕНА. КНИГИ ПАМЯТИ РОССИИ - Рейнекс Екатерина Георгиевн" . nlr.ru . Retrieved 9 April 2021 .
^ "Гуревич Михаил Иосифович 1892-1976" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
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^ "Кравков Сергей Николаевич" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
^ "Криштофович Африкан Николаевич" . serafimovskoe.ru . Retrieved 7 April 2019 .
^ "Криштофович Африкан Николаевич (1885 – 1953)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
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^ "Шишкин Борис Константинович" (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
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^ "Салье Марина Евгеньевна (1934 – 2012)" . nekropol-spb.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 April 2019 .
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Danilova, Nataliya (2014). "Victims and heroes: Commemorating the Russian military casualties in the Chechen conflicts". In Anne Le Huérou; Aude Merlin; Amandine Regamey; Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds.). Chechnya at War and Beyond . London: Routledge . ISBN 9781317756170 .
Danilova, Nataliya (2016). The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia . London: Palgrave Macmillan . ISBN 9781137395719 .
Kelly, Catriona (2014). St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past . Yale University Press . ISBN 9780300198591 .
Kobak, A. V.; Pirutko, Yu. M. (1993). Исторические кладбища Петербурга . Справочник-путеводитель.