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.

Interred

 * 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
 * Leonid Kharitonov (1930-1987), actor
 * Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), poet and singer-songwriter
 * Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946–1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion


 * Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), Ninth World Chess Champion (1963–1969)
 * Mikhail Pugovkin (1923–2008), actor


 * Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), painter


 * Gennady Shpalikov (1937–1974), poet, screenwriter
 * David Shterenberg (1881–1948, artist


 * Vitaly Solomin (1941–2002), actor


 * Vasily Surikov (1848–1916), painter
 * Igor Talkov (1956–1991), poet, singer-songwriter


 * Anna Timiryova (1893-1975), poet
 * 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