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 [ edit ]
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.
Eduard Limonov (1943-2020), Russian writer and political dissident, founder of the National Bolshevik Party
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
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (1971-2024), Russian actress
Agnia Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova (1911–1996), Russian writer
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
Valery Boldin (1935-2006), former Assistant Secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev
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