List of burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery

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The Church of Seraphim of Sarov in the Serafimovskoe Cemetery [ru]

Serafimovskoe Cemetery (Russian: Серафимовское кладбище) in northwestern Saint Petersburg's Primorsky District, contains a large number of burials as well as monuments and memorials to notable figures in Soviet and Russian history.

The cemetery was created from land set aside in 1903, with the first burial taking place on 28 May 1905. It was mainly a burial location for the poor of the area, as well as soldiers and sailors who died in the First World War.[1] It rose to prominence in the Second World War when it became a site of numerous mass graves of those who died in the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944.[1] Since then leading figures from a variety of sections of society have been interred in the cemetery. Saint Petersburg's history as a naval base have made the cemetery a popular location for naval officers. Those buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery include Giorgi Abashvili, Vladimir Alafuzov, Ivan Yumashev, and Mikhail Zakharov. There are also memorials to several maritime accidents and disasters, including the sinking of the ships Mekhanik Tarasov and Polessk, and the loss of the submarines Kursk and Komsomolets. On 6 July 2019 the fourteen men who died in a fire aboard the submarine Losharik were interred in the cemetery.[2] A memorial also commemorates the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash, which included a large number of Soviet Navy officers. Other military figures interred in the cemetery include Soviet Air Force Lieutenant General Dmitry Alexandrovich Medvedev, two flying aces of the Korean War; Anatoly Karelin and Mikhail Mikhin, and Major General Sergei Ivanovich Tiulpanov, who commanded the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. Among the many other Heroes of the Soviet Union who were buried here are Boris Alekseyev [ru], Nikolai Archakov [ru], Ivan Afanasyev [ru], Anton Gurin [ru], Pavel Pavlov [ru], and Fyodor Simakov [ru].[1]

Numerous sportspeople have also been buried here, among whom; Olympians Valentin Boreyko, Igor Novikov, Nikolai Panin, Nikolay Puzanov, Rinnat Safin and Gennadiy Tsygankov; footballers Lev Burchalkin, Valentin Fyodorov, Vladimir Kazachyonok, Nikolai Lyukshinov, Nikolai Sokolov and Yevgeni Yeliseyev. From the world of arts, painters Dmitry Belyaev, Pavel Filonov, Boris Lavrenko, Joseph Serebriany, and Nina Veselova; actors Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Igor Dmitriev, Irina Gubanova, Pavel Kadochnikov, Nikolai Kryukov, Lev Lemke, Sergey Mikaelyan, Gennadiy Michurin, Antonina Shuranova, and Mikhail Svetin; dancers Boris Fenster, Alla Sizova, Yuri Soloviev and Sergei Vikharev; musicians Vitaly Bujanovsky, Boris Gutnikov and Yuri Morozov; and architect Iosif Langbard were all buried here. The parents of Vladimir Putin were also interred here, in 1998 and 1999.[3]

Joint memorials commemorate the dead of various accidents and tragedies. As well as naval memorials, there are ones to those who died in the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet–Afghan War, the Chernobyl disaster, an avalanche on Lenin Peak, in the Pamir Mountains, and the 1991 fire at the hotel Leningrad.[1][4][3]

Military

Image
Name
Born
Died
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Pavel Abankin19021965Naval commander, admiral, Second World War, head of the Amur and Onega Flotillas [ru], the Voroshilov Naval Academy, and the Hydrographic Service[5]
Giorgi Abashvili19101982Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet[6]
Vladimir Alafuzov19001966Naval commander, admiral[7]
Leonid Belousov19091998Soviet flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union[8]
Vladimir Frolov19672022Military officer, major-general[9]
Alexander Grigoryev19492008Security services official, KGB, FSB[10]
Vitaly Ivanov19352024Naval officer, admiral, commander of the Baltic Fleet, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy[11]
Anatoly Karelin19221974Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union[12]
Konstantin Kuznetsov19021977Naval officer, rear-admiral, submariner, head of the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School, head of the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation.[13]
Gennady Lyachin19552000Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss[14]
Nikolai Maydanov19562000Military officer, helicopter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Russian Federation[15]
Dmitry Medvedev19181992Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops[16]
Mikhail Mikhin19232007Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union[17]
Mikhail Motsak19492019Naval officer, vice-admiral, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Northern Fleet, Kursk submarine disaster search and salvage operations. Hero of the Russian Federation.[18]
Ivan Moshlyak19071981Major general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, Second World War.[19]
Aleksandr Oryol19081997Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Baltic Fleet and the Naval Academy[20]
Valentin Ponikarovsky19272009Naval officer, admiral, deputy commander in chief of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, head of the Naval Academy[21]
Yuri Panteleyev19011983Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet[22]
Vasily Savvin19392020Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia[23]
Aleksandr Shabalin19141982Naval officer, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, counter-admiral[24]
Emil Spiridonov19251981Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet[25]
Georgy Stepanov18901957Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the Onega [ru] and White Sea Military Flotillas [ru][26]
Sergei Tiulpanov19011987Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany[27]
Viktor Vasilyev18871961Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy[28]
Nikolai Yegipko19031985Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union[29]
Vasily Yeryomin19432020Naval officer, deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy[30]
Ivan Yumashev18951972Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces[31]
Mikhail Zakharov19121978Naval officer, admiral, Second World War[32]

Sport

Image
Name
Born
Died
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Konstantin Aseev19602004Chess grandmaster, trained Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev[33]
Valentin Boreyko19332012Olympic rower, 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics.[34]
Lev Burchalkin19392004Football player and coach, Zenit Leningrad, USSR[35]
Valentin Bystrov19292017Hockey player, coach, sports referee, and teacher[36]
Fyodor Datlin18801941Figure skater, World Championships, Russian Championships, Soviet Championships[37]
Valentin Fyodorov19111981Football player and coach, FC Dynamo Leningrad[35]
Vladimir Kazachyonok19522017Football player and coach, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg[38]
Nikolai Lyukshinov19152010Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Dynamo Leningrad[39]
Boris Matveyev19291968Athletics, discus throw. 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics[40]
Igor Novikov19292007Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics[41]
Nikolai Panin18721956Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics[35]
Nikolay Puzanov19382008Biathlete, 1968 Winter Olympics[35]
Anatoly Roshchin19322016Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler nine Olympic and World Championship medals[42]
Rinnat Safin19402014Biathlete, 1972 Winter Olympics[43]
Aleksandr Safronov19521989Speed skater. 1976 Winter Olympics, World Championships[44]
Lidia Selikhova19222003Speed skater. World Championships[45]
Rashid Sharafetdinov19432012Long-distance runner, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics[46]
Natalya Smirnitskaya19272004Track and field athlete, javelin throw. World record twice in 1949, 1950 European Athletics Championships, 1949 World Festival of Youth and Students. Two-time national champion.[47]
Nikolai Sokolov18971988Football player, FC Dynamo Leningrad, USSR[48]
Gennadiy Tsygankov19472006Olympic ice hockey player and coach, 1972 Winter Olympics, 1976 Winter Olympics[35]
Yevgeni Yeliseyev19091999Football player and coach, FC Dinamo Minsk[49]

Arts

Image
Name
Born
Died
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Dmitry Belyaev19212007Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting.[35]
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova19041983Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.[35][50]
Vitaly Bujanovsky19281993Classical horn player, music teacher and composer, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Conservatory[51]
Aleksandr Demyanenko19371999Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures[35]
Igor Dmitriev19272008Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Hamlet[35][52]
Boris Fenster19161960Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre, Kirov Ballet[35]
Pavel Filonov18831941Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi[35]
Irina Gubanova19402000Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace, Battle of Moscow[53]
Boris Gutnikov19311986Violinist, 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition, 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Leningrad Conservatory[35]
Pavel Kadochnikov19151988Actor, film director, screenwriter. Ivan the Terrible, three times Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour[35][54]
Alexander Khochinsky19441998Stage and film actor, bard. The Woman who Sings, The General, Honored Artist of the RSFSR[55]
Natalia Krandievskaya18881963Poet and memoirist[56]
Nikolai Kryukov19151993Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, The Andromeda Nebula[35]
Boris Lavrenko19202001Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, representative of Leningrad School of Painting[35]
Iosif Langbard18821951Architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet[35][57][58]
Lev Lemke19311996Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Comedy Theatre[35]
Sergey Mikaelyan19232016Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983)[59]
Gennadiy Michurin18971970Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953)[35]
Yuri Morozov19482006Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer[35]
Varvara Myasnikova19001978Actress, The Parisian Cobbler, Cinderella, Mumu[60]
Joseph Serebriany19071979Painter and stage decorator, Leningrad Union of Artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Repin Institute of Arts, Leningrad School of Painting[35]
Antonina Shuranova19362003Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR, An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano[35][61]
Alla Sizova19392014Ballet dancer, Kirov Ballet[62]
Yuri Soloviev19401977Premier danseur, Kirov Ballet[35]
Mikhail Svetin19292015Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat[63]
Yefim Uchitel19131988Cameraman, director and screenwriter of documentary films, People's Artist of the USSR[64]
Nina Veselova19221960Realist painter, graphic artist, Leningrad Union of Artists, Leningrad School of Painting[65]
Sergei Vikharev19622017Ballet dancer, choreographer, Mariinsky Ballet[66]
Ivan Vladimirov18701947Painter and graphic artist[67]
Aleksey Zhivotov19041964Composer and music teacher[68]

Sciences

Image
Name
Born
Died
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Antonina Borissova19031917Botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia[35]
Mikhail Budyko19202001Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956)[35]
Alexey Bystrow18991959Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana[35]
Ekaterina Czerniakowska18921942Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants[69]
Andrey Fedorov19081987Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer[35]
Boris Fedtschenko18721947Plant pathologist and botanist, head botanist at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden[70]
Grigorii Fikhtengol'ts18881959Mathematician, real analysis, functional analysis[71]
Lev Fink19101988Physicist[35]
Alexander Freiman18791968Philologist, Iranist[72]
Iosif Geilman19232010Sign language expert, developer and interpreter. Founder and first director of the first All-Russian Educational Center for the Deaf. Gestuno.[73]
Nikolai Girenko19402004Ethnologist and human rights activist, director of the Kunstkamera.[74]
Mikhail Gurevich18931976Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau[75][35]
Moisey Kirpicznikov19131995Botanist[35]
Yevgeny Korotkevich19181994Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russian Geographical Society[76]
Sergey Kravkov18941942Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War[77]
Afrikan Krishtofovich18851953Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932)[78][79][35]
Nikolai Kudryavtsev18931971Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory[80]
Dmitry Machinsky19372012Archaeologist, Hermitage Museum. Excavations of Lyubsha and Viking settlements along the Volkhov River[81]
Yeleazar Meletinsky19182005Folklorist, philologist, theory of narrative. Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Russian State University for the Humanities[82]
Ivan Meshchaninov18831967Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography[83]
Ivan Novopokrovskiy18801951Botanist, specialist in botanical geography and systematics of higher plants[84]
Konstantin Petrzhak19071988Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium[85]
Ilya Petrushevsky18981977Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences[35]
Georgy Pigulevsky18881964Organic chemist, specializing in natural product chemistry, terpene compounds[86]
Nina Pigulevskaya18941970Historian and orientalist. Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, vice president of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society[87]
Mikhail Popov18931955Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia[35]
Anatoly Riabinin18741942Geologist and vertebrate paleontologist, Riabininohadros, Amurosaurus, Batrachognathus, Mandschurosaurus[88]
Nikolai Schipczinsky18861955Botanist and taxonomist, director of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden[89]
Boris Schischkin18861963Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia[90]
Pavel Serebrovsky18881942Ornithologist, biogeographer, and paleontologist[91]
Igor Shiklomanov19392010Hydrologist, Director of the Russian State Hydrological Institute, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. 2006 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.[92]
Ruslan Skrynnikov19312009Historian, Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles[93]
Aleksandr Stackelberg18971975Entomologist, Zoological Museum [94]
Joseph Starik19021964Radiochemist, studies of ionic and colloidal forms of radionuclides in ultra-diluted solutions. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, three times winner of the Stalin Prize[95]
Vasily Struve18891965Orientalist[35][96]
Evgenii Wulff18851941Biologist, botanist and plant geographer[97]
Lev Zinder19041995Linguist, specialist in German philology[35]

Politics and business

Image
Name
Born
Died
Occupation
Monument
Reference
Marina Salye19342012Geologist and politician, Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, People's Freedom Party[98]
Yury Shutov19462014Politician, investigated Anatoly Sobchak, Vladimir Putin[99]
Roman Tsepov19622004Businessman, confidant to Vladimir Putin[100]
Lev Zaykov19232002Politician, Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, and secretary of the CPSU Central Committee[101]

Group memorials

Notes

References

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