Vagankovo Cemetery

Vagankovo Cemetery

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

ee also

*List of famous cemeteries

[http://www.vagankovo.pogost.info/ Cemetery Vagankovo]


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