Kuntsevo Cemetery

Kuntsevo Cemetery
Кунцевское кладбище
Details
Established	17th century
Location	Moscow
Country	Russia
Coordinates	55°42′28″N 37°25′00″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

The 19th-century graves

Tomb of Kirill A. Yevstigneyev

• 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

1. "Kuntsevo Cemetery at Kim Philby's Grave". www.passportmagazine.ru.
2. An excerpt The Moscow Times, Jule 12, 2000
3. Kinzhakov, Ivan (3 February 2018). "Чабаненко Андрей Трофимович" [Chabanenko Andrei Trofimovich]. elita-army.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 9 April 2019.
4. "ГУСЕВ Фёдор Тарасович (1905–1987)". moscow-tombs.ru (in Russian).
5. "Они тоже гостили на земле... Наймарк Марк Аронович (1909–1978)". nec.m-necropol.ru. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
6. Central Eurasian Studies Review, 2007, vol. 6, no. 1/2
7. "KGB Says Defector Killed Self Over Psychological Problems; 'He ... Displayed a Nervous State of Mind'". The Washington Post. June 29, 1989.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Imaging Russia 2000: film and facts By Anna M. Lawton p. 105 at Google Books
11. "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