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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
Abel, Rudolf Ivanovich b. July 11, 1903 d. November 15, 1971
Soviet Union Intelligence Officer. He was a Russian Cold War spy who had been captured by the United States while engaged in espionage. Born Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher in England to revolutionary parents who fled Czarist Russia, he served in the Russian Army during World War II, engaging in clandestine operations behind Nazi German lines. Trained as a spy by the KGB after the war, he resided in the United States for the purpose of gaining American nuclear secrets and other intelligence...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Donskoi Monastery Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
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.)
Troekourov Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevich b. October 1, 1791 d. May 12, 1859
Author. His books "The Family Chronicle" (1856) and "Years of Childhood" (1858) are considered among the finest of Russian memoirs. Born in Ufa, into a distinguished family that traced its roots back to Novgorod in the 11th Century, he fought in the Napoleonic Wars, an experience that shocked him so badly he retreated to his isolated estate for over 20 years. Around 1836 he moved to Moscow and began to publish semi-autobiographical sketches on hunting, fishing, and other pastoral pursuits;...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy 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
Aleksy II, Patriarch b. February 23, 1929 d. December 5, 2008
Russian Orthodox Patriarch. He was spiritual leader of the 140 million members of the Russian Orthodox Church and worked to heal the breaks that had occurred during the Soviet Union era. Born Alexi Mikailovich Ridiger, he was raised in Estonia, and was ordained a Deacon and a Priest in 1950. After his graduation from the Leningrad Theological Academy in 1953, his rise in the Church was rapid, and he was consecrated Bishop of Tallinn and Estonia in 1961. From 1986 until his elevation as...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Epiphany Cathedral, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Alexandrov, Alexander b. April 13, 1883 d. July 8, 1946
Conductor, Composer. Founder of the famed Red Army Choir and composer of Russia's national anthem. Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was born in Plakhino, near Moscow. He trained as a choirboy at St. Petersburg's Kazan Cathedral and later studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he became a professor in 1918. In 1928 he organized the small Red Army Song Ensemble to boost morale and encourage amateur music-making among the soldiers; it quickly won the patronage of dictator Josef Stalin and by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 3
Alexandrov, Grigori b. February 23, 1903 d. December 16, 1983
Motion Picture Director. Best known for his glitzy musical-comedies of the 1930s, the first of their kind in Soviet Cinema. Born Grigori Mormonenko in Yekaterinburg, Russia, he started out as a provincial actor and acrobat and entertained Red Army troops during the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he joined the Proletkult Theatre in Moscow and became friends with its young director, Sergei Eisenstein, whom he later followed into the cinema. Alexandrov served as Eisenstein's chief assistant and co-...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 3
Allilujewa-Stalina, Nadezhda Sergejevna b. 1901 d. November 9, 1932
She was the second wife of Josiph Vissarionovich Stalin. Stalin married Allilujeva in 1918, and she was young enough to be his daugter. Allilujewa never fit in the political environment of her husband, she became outsider and she was very unhappy. She was found dead in her sleeping room with one revolver in her hand. At that time (1932) the official version of her death was suicide. But a lot of facts pointed to murder. The death of Stalin's second and last wife remains for all time a secret.
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: entering the cemetery turn to the right. You will always find the flowers on her grave
Andropov, Yuri b. June 15, 1914 d. February 9, 1984
Soviet Union Premier. General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Cause of death: Acute kidney failure
Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Annenkov, Nikolay b. September 20, 1899 d. September 30, 1999
Actor. He was born in Inzhaviono, Russia. He become one of the leading actors of the Russian stage, and was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1960. His career spanned from 1922 to his death in 1999, appearing in more than 200 roles with the Maly Theater. In cinema, he appeared in "Giber Orla" (1940), "Varvary" (1953), "Dachniki" (1967), "Opoznanie" (1973) and "Poema o Krylyakh" (1979). He celebrated his 100 birthday on stage, but died shortly after. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Artomonova, Inga b. August 29, 1936 d. January 4, 1966
Olympic Champion Ice Skater.
Vagan'kovskoe Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Babel, Isaac b. July 13, 1894 d. January 27, 1940
Author. A master of the short story, he is regarded by many as the greatest Russian writer of the 1920s. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, to a family of Jewish merchants, he began writing as a teenager under the influence of Maupassant. In 1916 Babel met author Maxim Gorky, who published two of his stories but advised him to get some life experience before setting out on a literary career. In 1920 Babel joined the Red Army as a correspondent during the Soviet invasion of Poland; his experiences...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Donskoi Monastery Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Bagramyan, Ivan Hristoforovich b. December 2, 1897 d. September 21, 1982
Soviet General. He was born in the city of Elizavetpol in the Republic of Azerbaijan. He joined the Russian Army in 1915 and served in both the First World War and the Russian Civil War. From 1923 to 1931 he served as the commander of an Armenian Rifle Division and also received advanced training in the Russian Calvary. He attended the Frunze Military Academy from 1931 to 1934 as a student and as a military instructor from 1938 to 1940. He was appointed chief of staff of the Southwest front...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Kremlin Wall, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Bagritsky, Eduard b. November 3, 1895 d. February 16, 1934
Poet. One of the few Soviet authors to write in the late romantic tradition. He celebrated post-revolutionary life in the USSR with an exuberant yet unsentimental lyricism. His long narrative poem "The Lay of Opanas" (1926), written in the style of a Ukrainian folk epic and set during the Russian Civil War, is considered his masterpiece. Bagritsky was the pen name of Eduard Georgiyevich Dzjubin, born into a Jewish family in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned a degree as a land surveyor but...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 1, Row 1
Baibakov, Nikolai Konstantinovich b. March 6, 1911 d. March 31, 2008
Economist, Statesman. The last Stalin-Era Russian Commissar. Born in the Sabunchi District of Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) to an oil driller, he graduated from the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute in 1932 as a mining engineer. He completed his compulsary military service from 1935 to 1937, after which he held various engineering and administrative jobs in the petroleum industry. During World War II he was in charge of evacuating oil industry facilities to the eastern regions to...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Barmin, Vladimir Pavlovich b. March 17, 1909 d. July 18, 1993
Scientist. He was the chief designer of Soviet Launch Pads.
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Batalov, Nikolai b. December 6, 1899 d. November 10, 1937
Actor. Charismatic Soviet star of stage and screen. From 1916 he was a fixture of the Moscow Art Theatre troupe, making a name for himself in its Second Theatre under the direction of Mikhail Chekhov. His greatest triumphs were in the long-running production of Vsevolod Ivanov's "Armored Train 14-69" (1926) and in the title role of "The Marriage of Figaro" (1930), co-starring his wife Olga Androvskaya as Susanna. Batalov's film appearances were few but memorable. They include "Aelita" (1924)...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Plot: Section 2, Row 15 (MAT Plot)
Batitski, Pavel Fedorovich b. June 27, 1910 d. February 17, 1984
Soviet General. He was born in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov and joined the Red Army in 1924. He attended the Frunze Military Academy and spent his early years as a member of the Russian Calvary. He was the commanding officer of the 254th, 73rd, 128th, and 50th rifle divisions during the Second World War, serving on the Ukrainian and Belorussian fronts. He was a central figure in helping to liberate the Ukraine, Moldavia, Belorussian, Poland and Czechoslovakia from German occupation forces, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation
Bedny, Demyan b. April 13, 1883 d. May 25, 1945
Poet. Largely forgotten today, he once ranked among the Soviet Union's most famous authors. His simple, song-like topical verses, filled with slapstick wit and satire, were widely read in the 1920s and 1930s. Boris Pasternak claimed he saw "the spirit of the people" in his work. Born Yefim Alekseyevich Pridvorov in Gubovka, Ukraine, he studied at St. Petersburg University and became a committed liberal after the failed 1905 Russian Revolution. He adopted the pseudonym Demyan Bedny, which...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Moscow Federal City, Russian Federation

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