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Abdulov, Aleksandr b. May 29, 1953 d. January 3, 2008
Actor. Born in Tobolsk, Russia, he made his 1974 motion picture debut in "About Vitya, about Masha and the Sea Force." In 1975 he was hired by Lenkom Theater director Mark Zakharov, and became a celebrity after appearing in "The Ordinary Miracle." During the early 1980s he was considered a sex symbol and one of the most popular Russian stars, playing in "Look for a Woman," "Magicians" and "The Woman in White." During the 1990s he mostly worked in the Lenkom Theatre, where he directed the play "...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Aksyonov, Vasily b. August 20, 1932 d. July 6, 2009
Writer. He was a prolific Russian author best known for his novels critical of the Soviet system. He began his career writing for the Yunost (Youth) magazine in the 1950s and his first novel, "The Colleagues," was published in 1959. In 1970s, Aksyonov with several other writers set up their own journal called Metropol, but it was blocked from publishing causing Aksyonov being expelled from Soviet Union citizenship. Relocating to the United States in 1980, he continued his writing and taught...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Artomonova, Inga b. August 29, 1936 d. January 4, 1966
Athlete. Born in Moscow, Russia, she was a Soviet speed ice skater and the first four-time All World Champion in women's speed skating history. She won the All-round World Championships in 1957, 1958 and 1962, and was second in 1963 and 1964 before capturing her fourth World Championships title in 1965. Over the course of her career, she set records in 1962, with new marks on the 500 m, 1,500 m and 3,000 m, which also resulted in a new world record on the combination 500 m – 1,000 m – 1,500 m –...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Benislavskaya, Galina Arturovna b. December 16, 1897 d. December 3, 1926
Yesenin was the great love of Galina Benislavskaya. She wrote him a lot of letters and he answered some of them. After the death of Yesenin (also suicide), she decided to end also her life. After her death on the grave of Yesenin, all trees surrounding Yesenin's grave had to be removed, to avoid the next death of his fans.
Cause of death: Hung herself in a tree above the grave of Sergei Yesenin
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Meters from Yesenin's grave
Bobrishev-Pushkin, Pavel Sergeievich b. July 15, 1802 d. February 13, 1865
He was a 'Dekabristy', a leader of the December 1825 Russian Revolution.
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Chukhrai, Grigori b. May 23, 1921 d. October 28, 2001
Motion Picture Director, Screenwriter. One of the first important talents to emerge from the post-Stalinist "thaw" period of Soviet Cinema. His fame rests on "Ballad of a Soldier" (1959), a simple, haunting allegory of a young Russian who falls in love while on leave during World War II. The first Soviet film entered into a US film festival, it took top honors in San Francisco in 1960 and Chukhrai shared a 1962 Academy Award nomination for its original screenplay. Grigori Naumovich Chukhraj...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Grave adjacent to Columbarium
Dahl, Vladimir Ivanovich b. November 10, 1801 d. October 4, 1872
Lexicographer. Author of the first dictionary of the Russian language. (Bio by: Graveaddiction)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Dobrynin, Anatoly Fyodorovich b. November 16, 1919 d. April 6, 2010
Soviet Diplomat. Born outside of Moscow in Krasnaya Gorka, he served as the Soviet Union's ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986. Trained as an aviation engineer, he was recruited to Moscow's Higher Diplomatic School following the Communist Party purges of the 1930s. From 1952 to 1955, he served in the Soviet embassy in Washington D.C., and also served as Under-Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs at the United Nations from 1957 to 1960. He helped defuse tensions...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Eisen, Artur b. June 8, 1927 d. February 26, 2008
Opera Singer. He was an esteemed bass soloist of Moscow's Bolshoi Opera for nearly 50 years, noted as a superb singing actor. In 1976 he was named People's Artist of the USSR. Artur Arturovich Eisen was born in Moscow, into a family of Latvian nationalists. After World War II he studied acting at the Shchukin Theatre School and singing at the Gnessin State Musical College and the Moscow Conservatory. From 1949 to 1956 he was a soloist of the Red Army Chrorus (now the Alexandrov Ensemble), with...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 12
Frolov, Alexander Fillipovich b. August 24, 1804 d. May 6, 1885
He was a 'Dekabristy', a leader of the December 1825 Russian Revolution.
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Golovkina, Sofia b. October 13, 1915 d. February 17, 2004
Russian Ballerina. She danced with the Bolshoi Theater for nearly three decades. Her many roles included Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty" and Odette in "Swan Lake." (Bio by: Laurie)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Gomelsky, Alexander b. January 18, 1928 d. August 16, 2005
Legendary Russian Basketball Coach. Remembered as the "father" of Soviet and Russian basketball he is considered by many to have been one of the greatest basketball coaches on the world stage. His team was the first ever to deprive Team USA of an Olymipc gold medal, in the 1972 olympics at Munich. Born in the northwestern Russian town of Kronstadt he studied sports coaching in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Then was a coach for SKA Leningrad, ASK Riga and CSKA Moscow before his appointment as...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Grinkov, Sergei Mikhailovich b. February 4, 1967 d. November 20, 1995
Olympic Athlete. Born in Moscow, Russia, he was a world class pairs figure ice skater. Together with partner Ekaterina Gordeeva, they won virtually every major competition they entered, including the World Championships in (1985-86, 1988-89), European Championships (1987, 1989) and World Professional Championships (1991-92, 1994). At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, they won the Gold Medal in pairs and another Gold Medal in pairs at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, in...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Heart attack during skating practice in the USA
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Korotayev, Oleg Georgievich b. September 4, 1949 d. January 12, 1994
Russian Boxer. Born in Moscow, Russia, he was a Light-Heavyweight fighter most notable for winning the Silver Medal at the 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championship in Havana, Cuba. The event was the first ever on a world scale and had 274 boxers from 45 countries entered. He also won the Light-Heavyweight crown at the 1970 USSR Boxing Championship and the European Men's Championship in 1973. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Kvantrishvili, Otari b. January 27, 1948 d. April 5, 1994
Russian Mobster and former Russian Wrestling Champ, president of a sports foundation who also controlled Russia's wrestling federation. He was murdered at a public steam bath house by a contract killer and whose funeral was shown on television accompanied by the theme tune from the film The Godfather. (Bio by: Graveaddiction)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Lemeshev, Vyacheslav Ivanovich b. April 3, 1952 d. January 27, 1996
Olympic Athlete. Born in Moscow, Russia, he was a middleweight amateur boxer who won 103 fights and only loss 8 during his career. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he knocked out four of his five opponents to win the middleweight division Gold Medal. He also won the middleweight European Championships in 1973, 1975 and 1974 USSR Championship. He died at age 43 in Moscow, Russia and is a recipient of the Soviet Union Order of the Badge of Honor. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Meyerhold, Vsevolod [cenotaph] b. February 10, 1874 d. February 2, 1940
Director, Actor. Regarded as one of the most dynamic and original artists of 20th Century Theatre. He rebelled against naturalism on the Russian stage and sought a "pure" theatrical approach by synthesizing classical and avant-garde techniques. His aggressive individualism often put him at odds with his country's rulers and ultimately cost him his life. Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold was born in Penza, into a middle-class family of Prussian descent. Drawn to the stage from childhood, he dropped...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 17
Mironov, Andrey Aleksandrovich b. March 8, 1941 d. August 16, 1987
Actor. He was one of Russia's most popular movie stars during the late Soviet era. His films include "My Younger Brother" (1962), "Three Plus Two" (1963), "The Diamond Arm" (1968), and "The Twelve Chairs" (1976), in which he played Ostap Bender. He was named People's Actor of the USSR. Mironov was born in Moscow. In 1962 he joined Moscow's Satire Theatre and remained with that company the rest of his life. He collapsed and died on its stage while performing the title role in "The...[Read More] (Bio by: Pawel Golowin)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Neverov (Skobelev), Alexander (Alexander Sergeevich) b. December 12, 1886 d. December 24, 1923
Author. His novel "Tashkent, City of Bread" (1922) is considered a classic of early Soviet Literature. It is a tale of a teenage boy who sets out on a perilous journey to find food for his ailing mother. After getting caught up in the chaos of the Russian Civil War, he succeeds in his mission. The book's documentary style is enlivened with humor and folklore, and is refreshingly free of propaganda. Neverov was the son of peasants from the Volga region and most of his writing dealt with...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Pakhomova, Ludmilla b. December 31, 1946 d. May 17, 1986
Olympic Ice Skating Athlete. Born in Moscow, Russia, she began figure skating at age seven and was in organized competions by the early 1960s. In 1966, she paired up with Alexander Gorshkov as a duo skating team which led to their marriage in 1970. Together they won six World Championships (1970-74, 1976), six European Championships (1970-71, 1973-76) and the Gold Medal at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games Innsbruck. She died of Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 39 and was posthumously inducted into the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation

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