Cemetery in western Moscow, Russia
The Troyekurovo Cemetery
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
Troyekurovo 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
Anna Politkovskaya 's grave
Nina Alisova (1915–1996), Russian actress
Gennady Bachinsky (1971–2008),
Russian
radio talk show host and
producer
Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian writer
George Blake (1922–2020), Soviet spy who defected from the United Kingdom
Alexei Bogomolov (1913–2009),
radio engineer ,
Hero of Socialist Labour ,
Lenin Prize ,
USSR State Prize
Viktor Bortsov (1934–2008), Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor
Galina Dzhugashvili (1938–2007),
Russian translator of
French , granddaughter of
Joseph Stalin
Semyon Farada (1933–2009), Russian actor
Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009), Russian
cosmonaut
Vladislav Galkin (1971–2010), Russian film actor
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964),
Soviet -era writer and journalist
Natalya Gundareva (1948–2005), Russian actress
Roman Abelevich Kachanov (1921–1993), Russian animator
Dmitry Kholodov (1967–1994),
journalist of the
Russian
newspaper
Moskovskij Komsomolets , killed as he was investigating alleged
corruption among high ranks of the
Russian military
Elem Klimov (1933–2003),
Soviet
Russian
film director
Vyacheslav Kochemasov (1918–1998), diplomat
Andrey Kozlov (1965–2006), 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 (1959–2007), Russian
poet , translator, and publisher
Konstantin Krylov (1967–2020), nationalist writer, journalist and philosopher
Alfred Kuchevsky (1931–2000), Soviet professional ice hockey player
Sergey Kurdyumov (1928–2004), specialist in mathematical
physics ,
mathematical modeling ,
plasma physics ,
complexity studies and synergetic
Mikhail Lapshin (1934–2006), President of the
Altai Republic in
Russia from 2002 to 2006
Yuri Levada (1930–2006),
Russian
sociologist and
political scientist
Alexander Lenkov (1943–2014), Russian film, stage and voice actor.
Anatoly Lysenko (1937–2021), Russian television figure, journalist, director, producer.
[1]
Sergey Mavrodi (1955–2018),
MMM Leader
Georgy Millyar (1903–1993), Russian film actor
Yelena Mukhina (1960–2006), Soviet Gymnast.
Yulia Nachalova (1981–2019), Russian singer and actor
[2]
Vyacheslav Nevinny (1934–2009), Russian actor
Arsha Ovanesova (1906–1990), Soviet Armenian documentary film director, and screenplay writer.
[3]
Galina Pisarenko (1934–2022), Soviet-born Russian soprano and teacher
Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006), murdered Russian
journalist , author and
human rights
activist well known for her opposition to the
Chechen conflict and Russian President
Vladimir Putin
Lyubov Polishchuk (1949–2006),
Russian
actress
Pavel Popovich (1930–2009), the 8th person in space
Anatoly Pristavkin (1931–2008), Russian writer
Yuli Raizman (1903–1994), Russian film director
Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet archaeologist and historian
Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999), Russian poet
Daniil Shafran (1923–1997),
Jewish
Russian
cellist
Natalia Shvedova (1916–2009), Russian
lexicographer
Sergei Suponev (1963–2001), TV host
Valentina Tolkunova (1946–2010), Russian singer
Yevgeny Vesnik (1923–2009), Russian actor
Boris Zakhoder (1918–2000), Russian
children's writer
Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000), Russian novelist
Agnia Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (1911–1996), Russian writer
Public and political figures
Yegor Ligachyov (1920–2021),
Second Secretary of the
CPSU
Yevgeny Bushmin (1958–2019), Russian economist, politician
Anatoly Lukyanov (1930–2019),
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Ivan Silayev (1930–2023),
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
Viktor Chebrikov (1923–1999),
Soviet Union
spy and head of the
KGB from 1982 to 1988
Vitaly Fedorchuk (1918–2008),
Ukrainian
Soviet
administrator . He was chairman of the KGB in 1982. He then became the Soviet interior minister from 1982 until 1986
Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929–2024),
Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
Boris Fyodorov (1958–2008), Russian economist, politician, and reformer
Aleksandr Kamshalov (1932–2019), member of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and head of the
State Committee for Cinematography in the Soviet Union
Andrei Kirilenko (1906–1990), leading official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s
Gennady Kolbin (1927–1998), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Kazakh SSR
Nikolay Kruchina (1928–1991), top Soviet communist official, the administrator of affairs of the
Central Committee
Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924–2007),
Soviet politician and leading figure in
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of
KGB , dismissed in 1991 for his role in the failed
August Coup against Soviet
President and
Leader
Mikhail Gorbachev
Anna Larina (1914–1996), third wife of Bolshevik leader
Nikolai Bukharin , and author of memoirs about the Soviet Union and her 20 years spent imprisoned within the
Gulag
Pyotr Latyshev (1948–2008),
Presidential Envoy to
Urals Federal District , Russia
Yuri Maslyukov (1937–2010), the last
Gosplan chairman
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015), Russian opposition politician
Boris Pugo (1937–1991), Latvian Communist
political figure
Vladimir Semichastny (1924–2001), Chief of the KGB from November 1961 to April 1967
Georgy Shakhnazarov (1924–2001), Soviet politician and political scientist
Larisa Shoygu (1953–2021), Russian politician, deputy of the
State Duma (2007–21)
[4]
Anatoly Tyazhlov (1942–2008), Russian politician who served as the
governor of
Moscow Oblast from 1991 until 2000
Alexander Yakovlev (1923–2005), Russian economist, chief of party
ideology , sometimes called the "godfather of
glasnost "
Gennady Yanayev (1937–2010), the only
vice president of the Soviet Union
Military
Sergey Akhromeyev (1923–1991),
Hero of the Soviet Union (1982),
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983)
Galaktion Alpaidze (1916–2006), Soviet
lieutenant general and first director of the
Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Timur Apakidze (1954–2001), Russian
major general , deputy commander of
naval aviation and
Hero of the Russian Federation
Aleksey Botyan (1917–2020),
Hero of the Russian Federation (2007), Second World War partisan and intelligence officer
[5]
Vladimir Bogdashin (1952–2021), naval officer, rear admiral, captain of the frigate
Bezzavetnyy during the
1988 Black Sea bumping incident .
Yuri Drozdov (1925–2017), a high-level
Soviet and Russian
security official who oversaw the
KGB 's
Illegals Program from 1979 to 1991.
Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), general, son of
Joseph Stalin and his second wife,
Nadezhda Alliluyeva
Vitaly Margelov (1941–2021), colonel general, intelligence officer
[6]
Natalya Meklin (1922–2005), World War II bomber pilot and
Heroine of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Muravyov (1938–2020), colonel general of the
Strategic Missile Forces
[7]
Yevdokiya Pasko (1919–2017),
Heroine of the Soviet Union from the
46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment
[8]
Aleksey Prokhorov (1922–2002), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, major-general
Lev Rokhlin (1947–1998),
Lieutenant-General in the
Soviet and
Russian armies
Igor Sergeyev (1938–2006),
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 .
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942–2020), Marshal of Aviation, final Defence Minister of the Soviet Union
[9]
Leonid Shcherbakov (1936–2021),
Lieutenant-General ,
Hero of the Russian Federation
Boris Snetkov (1925–2006),
Army General in the Soviet and Russian armies
Lev Skvirsky (1903–1990), commander of the
26th Army
Aleksandr Starovoitov (1940–2021),
Army General ,
Hero of the Russian Federation
Ivan Ustinov (1920–2020), Soviet
general-lieutenant , counterintelligence officer
Valentin Varennikov (1923–2009), Soviet
General of the Army ,
Hero of the Soviet Union
Ivan Vertelko (1926–2021), Soviet Colonel General
Mikhail Vodopyanov (1899–1980),
Soviet aircraft pilot, one of the first
Heroes of the Soviet Union , and a Major General of the
Soviet Air Force
Mikhail Zaitsev (1923–2009), Soviet
General of the Army ,
Hero of the Soviet Union
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