# Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery

55°43′29″N 37°33′16″E﻿ / ﻿55.72472°N 37.55444°E﻿ / 55.72472; 37.55444

## Notable burials: A–C

* Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907–1948), mountaineer and sculptor
* Alexei Abrikosov (1875–1955), physician and pathologist
* Andrei Abrikosov (1906–1973), actor
* Grigori Abrikosov (1932–1993), actor
* Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), first Soviet space industry minister
* Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), KGB officer and foreign spy
* Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), writer
* Vsevolod Aksyonov (1902–1960), actor
* Karo Alabyan (1897–1959), architect
* Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946), founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble
* Boris Alexandrov (1905–1994), leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble
* Abraham Alikhanov, (1904–1970), physicist
* Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin
* Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), writer
* Averky Aristov (1903–1973), politician and diplomat
* Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010), mathematician
* Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), writer
* Nikolai Basistiy (1898–1971), naval admiral
* Pavel Batov (1897–1985), army general
* Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), writer
* Andrei Bely (1880–1934), writer
* Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), cosmonaut
* Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), cosmonaut
* Mark Bernes (1911–1969), actor and singer
* Aleksandr Blagonravov (1906–1962), military engineer
* Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress
* Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), writer
* Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), actor and director
* Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), journalist and businessman
* Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995), chess champion
* Valeriy Brumel (1942–2003), athlete champion
* Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), writer
* Serafima Bryusova (1894–1958), first female neurosurgeon
* Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), playwright and author
* Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Marshal of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union
* Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), neurosurgeon
* Rolan Bykov (1929–1998), actor
* Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), opera singer
* Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), writer
* Vladimir Chelomei (1914–1984), rocket engineer
* Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Nobel laureate in Physics
* Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), General of the Army
* Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), statesman
* Inna Churikova (1943-2023), Actress

## Notable burials: D–G

* Yakov Dashevsky (1902–1972), army general
* Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), army general
* Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), painter and sculptor
* Lev Dovator (1903–1941), army general
* Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician and civil servant
* Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), composer and conductor
* Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), writer
* G. El-Registan (1899–1945), poet
* Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), film director
* Ivan Fadeev (1906–1976), long-term finance minister
* Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), writer
* Klavdia Fomicheva, (1917–1958), WWII pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
* Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), writer
* Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), politician
* Shakir Geniatullin (1895–1946), army general
* Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), film director
* Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), composer
* Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), spacecraft and rockets designer
* Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), writer
* Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022), Last Leader of the Soviet Union and former President of the Soviet Union
* Raisa Gorbacheva (1932–1999), former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union and wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
* Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
* Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935–2011), popular actress, singer and entertainer

## Notable burials: H–K

* Nazim Hikmet (1901–1963), Turkish poet
* Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962–2017), opera singer
* Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), writer
* Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aeroplanes designer
* Archie Johnstone (1896-1963), journalist
* Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), composer
* Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991), last of the Old Bolsheviks
* Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), helicopters designer
* Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Nobel Prize–winning economist
* Lev Kassil (1905–1970), writer
* Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), writer
* Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906–1979), founder of sambo
* Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), poet
* Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), Leader of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)
* Sergei Khrushchev (1935–2020), engineer and academic, son of Nikita Khrushchev
* Igor Kio (1944–2006), illusionist
* Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904–1985), distinguished Soviet test pilot
* Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), eminent mathematician
* Boris Korolev (1885–1963), avant-garde sculptor
* Olga Knipper (1868–1959), actress
* Rustam Khan Khoyski (1888–1948), Minister of Social Security of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
* Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), violin virtuoso
* Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician
* Pavel Korin (1892–1967), painter and art restorer
* Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union
* Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Marshal of the Soviet Union
* Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944),the knapsack parachute inventor
* Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), air force general
* Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), opera singer
* Ernst Krenkel (1903–1971), explorer and radio operator
* Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (1950–2003), ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins
* Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist
* Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), film theorist and director
* Vladimir Krinsky (1890–1971), artist and architect

## Notable burials: L–O

* Lev Landau (1908–1968), Nobel laureate in Physics
* Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), army general and politician
* Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), computer pioneer
* Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), poet and singer
* Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii (1881–1948), director of Glavlit
* Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Hero of the Russian Federation, chief of commission that investigated 1986 Chernobyl disaster
* Sergei Lemeshev (1902–1977), opera singer
* Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), actor
* Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), painter
* Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio announcer
* Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), politician
* Matvey Manizer (1891–1966), Socialist realist sculptor
* Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), flying ace
* Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), writer, translator and children's poet
* Ekaterina Maximova (1939–2009), prima ballerina
* Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet
* Victor Merzhanov (1919–2012), pianist
* Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
* Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), politician and former premier
* Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
* Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), sculptor
* Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), missile/weapon engineer and designer
* Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), theater director
* Grigory Nikulin (1895–1965), Bolshevik revolutionary and chekist
* Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), clown and actor
* Alexander Novikov (1900–1976), Air Force Marshal
* Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), puppeteer
* Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), geologist, geographer and explorer
* Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), writer
* Nikolay Ogarkov (1917–1994), Marshal and Chief of the Soviet General Staff (1977–1984)
* David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violin virtuoso
* Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), scientist
* Lyubov Orlova (1902–1975), actress
* Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), writer
* Arkady Ostrovsky (1914-1967), composer

## Notable burials: P–R

* Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), army general
* Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), actor
* Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), poet and jazz musician
* Vera Pashennaya (1887–1962), actress of theater and cinema
* Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), female sniper
* Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), army general
* Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), mathematician
* Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
* Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), Air Force marshal
* Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), writer
* Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (1892–1944), aircraft constructor
* Vitaly Popkov (1922–2010), pilot
* Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1971), high-ranked Communist Party functionary
* Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), composer
* Aleksandr Ptushko (1900–1973), film director
* Vyacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), chessplayer
* Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), stand up comedian
* Irina Rakobolskaya (1919–2016), chief of staff all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment in WWII; physicist
* Aleksandr Razumny (1891–1972), film director
* Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), pianist
* George de Roerich (1902–1960), tibetologist
* Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), film director
* Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), cellist
* Elena Rozmirovich (1886–1953), politician
* Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), pianist and composer
* Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), folk singer

## Notable burials: S

* Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), army general and politician
* Ivan Samylovsky (1905–1971), diplomat
* Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), scientist
* Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), composer
* Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), composer
* Ivan Sechenov (1829–1905), physiologist
* Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), politician
* Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), explorer
* Valentin Serov (1865–1911), writer and artist
* Boris Shcherbina (1919–1990), politician, oversaw recovery efforts after 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Spitak earthquake
* Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), architect
* Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), composer
* Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), politician
* Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer
* Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), civil engineer
* Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), writer and actor
* Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), actor
* Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), general
* Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), tenor and director of the Bolshoi Theatre
* Sergei Sokolov (1911–2012), Marshal of the Soviet Union, defense minister
* Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), philosopher
* Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), theater director
* Alexei Starobinsky (1948-2923), theoretical physicist and cosmologist
* Pavel Sukhoi (1895–1975), aerospace engineer
* Leopold Sulerzhitsky (1872–1916), theater practitioner
* Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), poet
* Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), composer

## Notable burials: T–Z

* Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), heroic army lieutenant
* Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), composer
* Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet and playwright
* Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), historian
* Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), painter and architect
* Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), choreographer
* Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), politician
* Gherman Titov (1935–2000), cosmonaut, second man in space
* Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), writer
* Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), businessman and art collector
* Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), aircraft designer
* Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), writer
* Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), prima ballerina
* Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), military judge
* Mikhail Ulyanov (1927–2007), actor
* Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), theater director
* Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), politician and businessman
* Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), physicist
* Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), mineralogist and a geochemist
* Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957), singer
* Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), filmmaker
* Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), mathematician
* Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012), operatic soprano & wife of Mstislav Rostropovich
* Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896–1934), psychologist
* Boris Yefimov (1899/1900–2008), political cartoonist
* Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), the first president of the Russian Federation
* Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), actor
* Yakov Yurovsky (1878–1938), chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
* Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), poet
* Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), chemist
* Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946-2022), politician and lawyer
* Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), actor