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Akhromeyev, Sergei Fedorovich b. May 5, 1923 d. August 24, 1991
Soviet Union Army General. He joined the Soviet Union Army in 1940 and the Communist Party in 1943, attending the Frunze Military Academy and the Astrakhan Infantry School. During World War II he served on the Leningrad Front as commander of a rifle unit and motorized artillery brigade. He served as Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1984 to 1988 and as chief military adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. He was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union in...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Dudarova, Veronika b. December 15, 1916 d. January 15, 2009
Conductor. She was the first woman in Russia to successfully head a major symphony orchestra. During her 60-year career she commanded a wide repertoire but was best known for promoting her country's music, from Glinka and Mussorgsky to the present. Her recordings for Melodiya and post-Soviet labels made the work of many unknown Russian composers available in the west. Veronika Borisovna Dudarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She studied piano in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Dygalo, Adm. Viktor Ananievich b. 1926 d. September 2, 2011
Soviet Fleet Admiral. He served as supreme commander of the Russian First Pacific Fleet. He began his military service during the Great Patriotic War of 1942, as a member of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Following graduation from the Frunze Naval School Academy in 1947, he was assigned as a submarine commander, serving in both the Northern and Pacific fleets. In 1958 he was appointed as the commanding officer of the Pacific Fleet's nuclear submarine program, where he oversaw the Soviet Union's...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Feoktistov, Konstantin Petrovich b. February 7, 1926 d. November 21, 2009
Scientist, Cosmonaut. He was Russia's first civilian space explorer, and the only non-member of the Communist Party to ever fly in the Soviet space program. Feoktistov was born in the city of Voronezh, in the Oblast region near the Ukraine. Wounded in the Second World War while serving as a reconnaissance and intelligence officer, he eventually went on to earn a doctorate degree in physics in 1949. Trained as an engineer, he was one of the Soviet Union's principle designers of the Voskhod...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Golub, Marina Grigorjevna b. December 8, 1957 d. October 10, 2012
Actress, Television Hostess.
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Klimov, Elem b. July 9, 1933 d. October 26, 2003
Motion Picture Director, Administrator. One of a handful of gifted Soviet filmakers to emerge from the post-Stalinist "thaw" of the early 1960s. His originality did not please the Communist establishment and he was able to direct only five features. Klimov's masterpiece, "Come and See" (1985), has been ranked among the greatest of war films. Set in Nazi-occupied Belarus in 1943, it is a shattering study of a 13 year-old boy witnessing the worst mankind has to offer while tagging along with a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
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Kryuchkov, Vladimir Alexandrovich b. February 29, 1924 d. November 23, 2007
Soviet Diplomat, Security Official, Conspirator. He was Chairman of the Soviet Union's security and secret police apparatus, the KGB, from 1988 to 1991. Kryuchkov was one of the "Gang of Eight", a group of hardline communists who attempted a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. The unsuccessful plot triggered the demise of the USSR. Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was born in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Russia. He joined the Komsomol (Communist Youth Organization) at age 19...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Mukhina, Yelena b. June 1, 1960 d. December 22, 2006
World Champion Athlete. In the late 1970's she was Russia's most promising gymnast. She won the Soviet junior national title in 1976 and placed second all-around at the Soviet Championships and the USSR Cup. At the European Championships 1977, she finished second all-around to Nadia Comaneci and won gold medals on the uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. At the World Cup, she won gold medals on the uneven bars and balance beam. In the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg, France, she...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Petrov, Nikolai b. April 14, 1943 d. August 3, 2011
Pianist. A busy recitalist, he shall be remembered for his precise technique and for being one of the few Soviet artists allowed to tour internationally during the Cold War. Born to a distinguished musical family, he studied piano from age three, entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1961, and in 1962 captured a Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Ft. Worth, Texas, a contest at which he was to serve as a judge in 1977. Over the years Petrov was to perform the works...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Politkovskaya, Anna b. August 30, 1958 d. October 7, 2006
Journalist, Author. Born in New York, she was a special correspondent for the Russian journal Novaya Gazeta. Politkovskaya was widely recognized for her book "The Dirty War", a collection of articles mainly about the second Chechen conflict, which began in 1999. Her many awards include the Prize of the Russian Union of Journalists, the Amnesty International UK's Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, and the Olof Palme Prize for human rights work. In...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Popovich, Pavel b. October 6, 1929 d. September 30, 2009
Cosmonaut. Born Pavel Romanovich Popovich, he was part of the pioneer Soviet team of Cosmonauts and was one of the first men to go into space orbit. After studying aviation engineering, he joined the Russian Air Force in 1954 and became a Cosmonaut in 1960. In August 1962, together with Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, he commanded the Vostok 4 space capsule which made 48 orbits around the Earth in three days. Popovich again went into space as commander of the two-man Soyuz 14, a mission to the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Pugo, Boris b. February 19, 1937 d. August 22, 1991
Soviet Politician, Conspirator. He served as Interior Minister of the Soviet Union from 1990 until his death. Pugo was one of the "Gang of Eight", a group of hardline communists who attempted a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. The unsuccessful plot triggered the demise of the USSR. Boris Karlovich Pugo was born in Kalinin (now Tver, Russia), the son of Latvian bolsheviks, and was raised in his family's native Riga from age three. Trained as an engineer, he rose through...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Sergeyev, Igor Dmitriyevich b. April 20, 1938 d. November 10, 2006
Soviet General. He served as defense minister of the Russian Federation from May 1997 to March 2001. Prior to assuming the duties of defense minister he served as a senior military officer with the Soviet Missile Forces and as the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile forces. He became the first Soviet General to be awarded the title of "Marshal of the Russian Federation" following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He died from cancer at the age of 68.
(Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Sorokina, Nina b. May 13, 1942 d. October 8, 2011
Ballerina. A longtime star of Moscow's famed Bolshoi Ballet, she was later a respected teacher. Raised in the then Soviet capital, she studied at the Moscow Choreographic School prior to joining the Bolshoi in 1961. Nina was to remain with the company until 1988, dancing lead roles until around 1980. Over her career she was to perform in at least three Tchaikovsky works, "Sleeping Beauty", "Swan Lake", and the Christmas classic "The Nutcracker", as well as in Petipa's "Don Quixote", Boris...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Yanayev, Gennady Ivanovich b. August 26, 1937 d. September 24, 2010
Soviet Politician. He served as Vice President of the Soviet Union from December 1990 to August 1991. He joined the Communist Party in 1962, and was appointed to the Politburo in 1990, serving as Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He declared himself acting President of the Soviet Union on August 19, 1991, leading an attempted political coup against vacationing Mikhail Gorbachev, in an effort to re-establish authoritarian rule and prevent the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Troekurov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation

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