List of burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery

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, Nikolai Archakov, Ivan Afanasyev, Anton Gurin, Pavel Pavlov, and Fyodor Simakov.^[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]

Individuals

Military

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Pavel Abankin	1902	1965	Naval commander, admiral, Second World War, head of the Amur and Onega Flotillas, the Voroshilov Naval Academy, and the Hydrographic Service		[5]
	Giorgi Abashvili	1910	1982	Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet		[6]
	Vladimir Alafuzov	1900	1966	Naval commander, admiral		[7]
	Leonid Belousov	1909	1998	Soviet flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union		[8]
	Vladimir Frolov	1967	2022	Military officer, major-general		[9]
	Alexander Grigoryev	1949	2008	Security services official, KGB, FSB		[10]
	Vitaly Ivanov	1935	2024	Naval officer, admiral, commander of the Baltic Fleet, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy		[11]
	Anatoly Karelin	1922	1974	Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union		[12]
	Konstantin Kuznetsov	1902	1977	Naval officer, rear-admiral, submariner, head of the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School, head of the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation.		[13]
	Gennady Lyachin	1955	2000	Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss		[14]
	Nikolai Maydanov	1956	2000	Military officer, helicopter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Russian Federation		[15]
	Dmitry Medvedev	1918	1992	Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops		[16]
	Mikhail Mikhin	1923	2007	Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union		[17]
	Mikhail Motsak	1949	2019	Naval 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 Moshlyak	1907	1981	Major general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet–Japanese border conflicts, Second World War.		[19]
	Aleksandr Oryol	1908	1997	Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Baltic Fleet and the Naval Academy		[20]
	Valentin Ponikarovsky	1927	2009	Naval officer, admiral, deputy commander in chief of the Black Sea and Northern Fleets, head of the Naval Academy		[21]
	Yuri Panteleyev	1901	1983	Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet		[22]
	Vasily Savvin	1939	2020	Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia		[23]
	Aleksandr Shabalin	1914	1982	Naval officer, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, counter-admiral		[24]
	Emil Spiridonov	1925	1981	Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet		[25]
	Georgy Stepanov	1890	1957	Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the Onega and White Sea Military Flotillas		[26]
	Sergei Tiulpanov	1901	1987	Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany		[27]
	Viktor Vasilyev	1887	1961	Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy		[28]
	Nikolai Yegipko	1903	1985	Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union		[29]
	Vasily Yeryomin	1943	2020	Naval officer, deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy, head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy		[30]
	Ivan Yumashev	1895	1972	Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces		[31]
	Mikhail Zakharov	1912	1978	Naval officer, admiral, Second World War		[32]

Sport

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Konstantin Aseev	1960	2004	Chess grandmaster, trained Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev		[33]
	Valentin Boreyko	1933	2012	Olympic rower, 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics.		[34]
	Lev Burchalkin	1939	2004	Football player and coach, Zenit Leningrad, USSR		[35]
	Valentin Bystrov	1929	2017	Hockey player, coach, sports referee, and teacher		[36]
	Fyodor Datlin	1880	1941	Figure skater, World Championships, Russian Championships, Soviet Championships		[37]
	Valentin Fyodorov	1911	1981	Football player and coach, FC Dynamo Leningrad		[35]
	Vladimir Kazachyonok	1952	2017	Football player and coach, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg		[38]
	Nikolai Lyukshinov	1915	2010	Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Dynamo Leningrad		[39]
	Boris Matveyev	1929	1968	Athletics, discus throw. 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics		[40]
	Igor Novikov	1929	2007	Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics		[41]
	Nikolai Panin	1872	1956	Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics		[35]
	Nikolay Puzanov	1938	2008	Biathlete, 1968 Winter Olympics		[35]
	Anatoly Roshchin	1932	2016	Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler nine Olympic and World Championship medals		[42]
	Rinnat Safin	1940	2014	Biathlete, 1972 Winter Olympics		[43]
	Aleksandr Safronov	1952	1989	Speed skater. 1976 Winter Olympics, World Championships		[44]
	Lidia Selikhova	1922	2003	Speed skater. World Championships		[45]
	Rashid Sharafetdinov	1943	2012	Long-distance runner, 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics		[46]
	Natalya Smirnitskaya	1927	2004	Track 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 Sokolov	1897	1988	Football player, FC Dynamo Leningrad, USSR		[48]
	Gennadiy Tsygankov	1947	2006	Olympic ice hockey player and coach, 1972 Winter Olympics, 1976 Winter Olympics		[35]
	Yevgeni Yeliseyev	1909	1999	Football player and coach, FC Dinamo Minsk		[49]

Arts

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Dmitry Belyaev	1921	2007	Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting.		[35]
	Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova	1904	1983	Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.		[35][50]
	Vitaly Bujanovsky	1928	1993	Classical horn player, music teacher and composer, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Conservatory		[51]
	Aleksandr Demyanenko	1937	1999	Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures		[35]
	Igor Dmitriev	1927	2008	Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Hamlet		[35][52]
	Boris Fenster	1916	1960	Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre, Kirov Ballet		[35]
	Pavel Filonov	1883	1941	Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi		[35]
	Irina Gubanova	1940	2000	Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace, Battle of Moscow		[53]
	Boris Gutnikov	1931	1986	Violinist, 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition, 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Leningrad Conservatory		[35]
	Pavel Kadochnikov	1915	1988	Actor, film director, screenwriter. Ivan the Terrible, three times Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour		[35][54]
	Alexander Khochinsky	1944	1998	Stage and film actor, bard. The Woman who Sings, The General, Honored Artist of the RSFSR		[55]
	Natalia Krandievskaya	1888	1963	Poet and memoirist		[56]
	Nikolai Kryukov	1915	1993	Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, The Andromeda Nebula		[35]
	Boris Lavrenko	1920	2001	Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, representative of Leningrad School of Painting		[35]
	Iosif Langbard	1882	1951	Architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet		[35][57][58]
	Lev Lemke	1931	1996	Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Comedy Theatre		[35]
	Sergey Mikaelyan	1923	2016	Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983)		[59]
	Gennadiy Michurin	1897	1970	Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953)		[35]
	Yuri Morozov	1948	2006	Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer		[35]
	Varvara Myasnikova	1900	1978	Actress, The Parisian Cobbler, Cinderella, Mumu		[60]
	Joseph Serebriany	1907	1979	Painter and stage decorator, Leningrad Union of Artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Repin Institute of Arts, Leningrad School of Painting		[35]
	Antonina Shuranova	1936	2003	Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR, An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano		[35][61]
	Alla Sizova	1939	2014	Ballet dancer, Kirov Ballet		[62]
	Yuri Soloviev	1940	1977	Premier danseur, Kirov Ballet		[35]
	Mikhail Svetin	1929	2015	Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat		[63]
	Yefim Uchitel	1913	1988	Cameraman, director and screenwriter of documentary films, People's Artist of the USSR		[64]
	Nina Veselova	1922	1960	Realist painter, graphic artist, Leningrad Union of Artists, Leningrad School of Painting		[65]
	Sergei Vikharev	1962	2017	Ballet dancer, choreographer, Mariinsky Ballet		[66]
	Ivan Vladimirov	1870	1947	Painter and graphic artist		[67]
	Aleksey Zhivotov	1904	1964	Composer and music teacher		[68]

Sciences

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Antonina Borissova	1903	1917	Botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia		[35]
	Mikhail Budyko	1920	2001	Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956)		[35]
	Alexey Bystrow	1899	1959	Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana		[35]
	Ekaterina Czerniakowska	1892	1942	Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants		[69]
	Andrey Fedorov	1908	1987	Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer		[35]
	Boris Fedtschenko	1872	1947	Plant pathologist and botanist, head botanist at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden		[70]
	Grigorii Fikhtengol'ts	1888	1959	Mathematician, real analysis, functional analysis		[71]
	Lev Fink	1910	1988	Physicist		[35]
	Alexander Freiman	1879	1968	Philologist, Iranist		[72]
	Iosif Geilman	1923	2010	Sign language expert, developer and interpreter. Founder and first director of the first All-Russian Educational Center for the Deaf. Gestuno.		[73]
	Nikolai Girenko	1940	2004	Ethnologist and human rights activist, director of the Kunstkamera.		[74]
	Mikhail Gurevich	1893	1976	Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau		[75][35]
	Moisey Kirpicznikov	1913	1995	Botanist		[35]
	Yevgeny Korotkevich	1918	1994	Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russian Geographical Society		[76]
	Sergey Kravkov	1894	1942	Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War		[77]
	Afrikan Krishtofovich	1885	1953	Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932)		[78][79][35]
	Nikolai Kudryavtsev	1893	1971	Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory		[80]
	Dmitry Machinsky	1937	2012	Archaeologist, Hermitage Museum. Excavations of Lyubsha and Viking settlements along the Volkhov River		[81]
	Yeleazar Meletinsky	1918	2005	Folklorist, philologist, theory of narrative. Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Russian State University for the Humanities		[82]
	Ivan Meshchaninov	1883	1967	Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography		[83]
	Ivan Novopokrovskiy	1880	1951	Botanist, specialist in botanical geography and systematics of higher plants		[84]
	Konstantin Petrzhak	1907	1988	Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium		[85]
	Ilya Petrushevsky	1898	1977	Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences		[35]
	Georgy Pigulevsky	1888	1964	Organic chemist, specializing in natural product chemistry, terpene compounds		[86]
	Nina Pigulevskaya	1894	1970	Historian 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 Popov	1893	1955	Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia		[35]
	Anatoly Riabinin	1874	1942	Geologist and vertebrate paleontologist, Riabininohadros, Amurosaurus, Batrachognathus, Mandschurosaurus		[88]
	Nikolai Schipczinsky	1886	1955	Botanist and taxonomist, director of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden		[89]
	Boris Schischkin	1886	1963	Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia		[90]
	Pavel Serebrovsky	1888	1942	Ornithologist, biogeographer, and paleontologist		[91]
	Igor Shiklomanov	1939	2010	Hydrologist, 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 Skrynnikov	1931	2009	Historian, Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles		[93]
	Aleksandr Stackelberg	1897	1975	Entomologist, Zoological Museum		[94]
	Joseph Starik	1902	1964	Radiochemist, 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 Struve	1889	1965	Orientalist		[35][96]
	Evgenii Wulff	1885	1941	Biologist, botanist and plant geographer		[97]
	Lev Zinder	1904	1995	Linguist, specialist in German philology		[35]

Politics and business

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Marina Salye	1934	2012	Geologist and politician, Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, People's Freedom Party		[98]
	Yury Shutov	1946	2014	Politician, investigated Anatoly Sobchak, Vladimir Putin		[99]
	Roman Tsepov	1962	2004	Businessman, confidant to Vladimir Putin		[100]
	Lev Zaykov	1923	2002	Politician, Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, and secretary of the CPSU Central Committee		[101]

Group memorials

Monument	Event	Year
	To the citizens and defenders of Leningrad who died in the Siege of Leningrad[35]	1941–1944
	To the firefighters killed in the Hotel Leningrad fire[35]	1991
	To the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash[35]	1981
	To those who died in the sinking of the Mekhanik Tarasov[35]	1982
	To the soldiers who died in the Soviet–Afghan War[35]	1979–1989
	To those who died in the Chernobyl disaster[35]	1986
	To those who died in the sinking of the Polessk[35]	1993
	To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Kursk[35]	2000
	To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Komsomolets[35]	1989
	To the mountaineers who died in an avalanche on Lenin Peak, Pamir Mountains[35]	1990

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