Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia and the old Soviet Union.
Some of those interred here are:
- Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984), Ninth World Chess Champion (1963-1969)
- Inga Artamonova (1936-1966), world speed-skating champion
- Grigori Chukhrai (1921-2001), film director
- Vladimir Dal (1801-1872), lexicographer
- Sergei Grinkov (1967-1995), world & Olympic ice skating pairs champion
- Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997), poet and singer-songwriter
- Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946-1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion
- Mikhail Pugovkin (1923-2008),actor
- David Shterenberg d. 1948, artist
- Vasily Surikov (1848-1916), painter
- Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897), painter
- Vitaly Solomin (1941-2002), actor
- Igor Talkov (1956-1991), poet, singer-songwriter
- Vasily Tropinin, (1776-1857) painter,
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938-1980), actor, singer
- Leonid Yengibarov (1935-1972), clown, actor
- Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan
See also
Coordinates: 55°46.05′N 37°32.54′E / 55.7675°N 37.54233°E
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