Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Coordinates: 55°42′0.74″N 37°24′32.22″E / 55.7002056°N 37.4089500°E
The Troyekurovo Cemetery (Russian: Троекуровское кладбище, romanized: Troyekurovskoye kladbishche), alternatively known as Novo-Kuntsevo Cemetery (Russian: Ново-Кунцевское кладбище, romanized: Novo-Kuntsevskoye kladbishche), is a cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
The cemetery is located in the former village of on the western edge of Moscow, which derives its name from the Troyekurov princely family, a branch of the Rurikid House of Yaroslavl, that owned the village in the 17th century. Troyekurovo Cemetery includes the Church of Saint Nicholas, built by Prince Troyekurov in 1699-1704, which was closed during the Soviet era but reopened in 1991.
Troyekurovo Cemetery is administered as a branch of the Novodevichy Cemetery and is the resting place of numerous notable Russian and Soviet figures.
Notable people buried at the Troyekurovo Cemetery[]
Notable graves[]
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- Nina Alisova, Russian actress
- Gennady Bachinsky, Russian radio talk show host and producer
- Grigory Baklanov, Russian writer
- George Blake, Soviet spy who defected from the United Kingdom
- Alexei Bogomolov, radio engineer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Lenin Prize, USSR State Prize
- Viktor Bortsov, Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor
- Galina Dzhugashvili, Russian translator of French
- Semyon Farada, Russian actor
- Vitaly Fedorchuk, former KGB chief
- Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian cosmonaut
- Vladislav Galkin, Russian film actor
- Vasily Grossman, Soviet-era writer and journalist
- Natalya Gundareva, Russian actress
- Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Russian animator
- Dmitry Kholodov, journalist of the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets, killed as he was investigating alleged corruption among high ranks of the Russian military
- Elem Klimov, Soviet Russian film director
- Vyacheslav Kochemasov, diplomat
- Andrey Kozlov, was the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation from 1997 to 1999 and again in 2002 to 2006
- Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet, translator, and publisher
- Alfred Kuchevsky (1931–2000), Soviet professional ice hockey player
- Sergey Kurdyumov, specialist in mathematical physics, mathematical modeling, plasma physics, complexity studies and synergetics
- Mikhail Lapshin, President of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006
- Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and politologist
- Alexander Lenkov, Russian film, stage and voice actor.
- Anatoly Lysenko, Russian television figure, journalist, director, producer.[1]
- Sergey Mavrodi, MMM Leader
- Georgy Millyar, Russian film actor
- Yelena Mukhina, Soviet Gymnast. (1960-2006)
- Yulia Nachalova, Russian singer and actor[2]
- Vyacheslav Nevinny, Russian actor
- Anna Politkovskaya, murdered Russian journalist, author and human rights activist well known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and Russian President Vladimir Putin
- Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress. (1951-2008)
- Pavel Popovich, the 8th person in space
- Anatoly Pristavkin, Russian writer
- Yuli Raizman, Russian film director
- Boris Rybakov, Soviet archaeologist and historian
- Genrikh Sapgir, Russian poet
- Daniil Shafran, Jewish Russian cellist
- Natalia Shvedova, Russian lexicographer
- Sergei Suponev, TV host. (1965-2003)
- Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer
- Yevgeny Vesnik, Russian actor
- Boris Zakhoder, Russian children's writer
- Sergey Zalygin, Russian novelist
Public and political figures[]
- Yevgeny Bushmin, Russian economist, politician
- Viktor Chebrikov, Soviet Union spy and head of the KGB from 1982 to 1988
- Vitaly Fedorchuk, Ukrainian Soviet administrator. He was chairman of the KGB in 1982. He then became the Soviet interior minister from 1982 until 1986
- Boris Fyodorov, Russian economist, politician, and reformer
- Andrei Kirilenko, leading official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s
- Gennady Kolbin, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR
- Nikolay Kruchina, top Soviet communist official, the administrator of affairs of the Central Committee
- Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet politician and Communist Party member, dismissed in 1991 for his role in the failed coup against Gorbachev
- Pyotr Latyshev, Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District, Russia
- Yuri Maslyukov, the last Gosplan chairman
- Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician
- Boris Pugo, Latvian Communist political figure
- Vladimir Semichastny, Chief of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967
- Georgy Shakhnazarov, Soviet politician and political scientist
- Larisa Shoygu, Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma (2007-2021)[3]
- Anatoly Tyazhlov, Russian politician who served as the governor of Moscow Oblast from 1991 until 2000
- Alexander Yakovlev, Russian economist, chief of party ideology, sometimes called the "godfather of glasnost"
- Gennady Yanayev, the only vice president of the Soviet Union
Military[]
- Sergey Akhromeyev, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983)
- Galaktion Alpaidze, Soviet lieutenant general and first director of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
- Timur Apakidze, Russian major general, deputy commander of naval aviation and Hero of the Russian Federation
- Aleksey Botyan, Hero of the Russian Federation (2007), Second World War partisan and intelligence officer[4]
- Vladimir Bogdashin, naval officer, rear admiral, captain of the frigate Bezzavetnyy during the 1988 Black Sea bumping incident.
- Yuri Drozdov, a high-level Soviet and Russian security official who oversaw the KGB's Illegals Program from 1979 to 1991.
- Vasily Dzhugashvili, general, son of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva
- , colonel general, intelligence officer[5]
- Natalya Meklin, World War II bomber pilot and Heroine of the Soviet Union
- Vladimir Muravyov, colonel general of the Strategic Missile Forces[6]
- Yevdokiya Pasko, Heroine of the Soviet Union from the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment[7]
- Aleksey Prokhorov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, major-general
- Lev Rokhlin, Lieutenant-General in the Soviet and Russian armies
- Igor Sergeyev, Defense Minister of the Russian Federation from 1997 until 2001. He was the first and as of 2008 the only Marshal of the Russian Federation.
- Leonid Shcherbakov, Lieutenant-General, Hero of the Russian Federation
- Boris Snetkov, Army General in the Soviet and Russian armies
- Aleksandr Starovoitov, Army General, Hero of the Russian Federation
- Ivan Ustinov, Soviet general-lieutenant, counterintelligence officer
- Valentin Varennikov, Soviet General of the Army, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Ivan Vertelko, Soviet Colonel General
- Mikhail Vodopyanov, Soviet aircraft pilot, one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union, and a Major General of the Soviet Air Force
- Mikhail Zaitsev, Soviet General of the Army, Hero of the Soviet Union
References[]
- ^ Arnoldova, Yelena (21 June 2021). "Названо место похорон Анатолия Лысенко" (in Russian). Gazeta.Ru. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ Юлию Началову похоронят в четверг на Троекуровском кладбище. Риа Новости (in Russian).
- ^ "В Москве прошла церемония прощания с Ларисой Шойгу" (in Russian). TASS. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "В Москве похоронили легендарного разведчика Алексея Ботяна" (in Russian). REGNUM News Agency. 13 February 2020.
- ^ "В Москве похоронили Виталия Маргелова" (in Russian). Rambler.ru. 27 March 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Служба Ritual.ru организовала похороны генерал-полковника Владимира Александровича Муравьева" (in Russian). Moscow City Municipal Funeral Service. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "ОФИЦЕРЫ РОССИИ" простились с фронтовиком, Героем Советского Союза Евдокией Борисовной Пасько. ОФИЦЕРЫ РОССИИ (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-01-02.
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