Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery

= Notable burials: A-C =

*Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), first Soviet space industry minister
*Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), a KGB officer and foreign spy
*Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), a writer
*Abraham Alikhanov, a physicist
*Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin
*Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), a writer
*Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), a writer
*Andrei Bely (1880–1934), a writer
*Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), a cosmonaut
*Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), a cosmonaut
*Mark Bernes (1911–1969), an actor and singer
*Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), a writer
*Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), an actor and director
*Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), a journalist and businessman
*Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995), a chess champion
*Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), a writer
*Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), a playwright and author
*Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), a statesman
*Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), a neurosurgeon
*Rolan Bykov (1929–1998), an actor
*Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), an opera singer
*Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), a writer
*Vladimir Chelomei (1914–1984), a rocket engineer
*Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904-1990), a Nobel laureate in Physics
*Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), a General of the Army
*Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), a statesman

Notable burials: D–G

*Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), an army general
*Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), a painter and sculptor
*Lev Dovator (1903–1941), an Army general
*Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), a composer and conductor
*Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), a writer
*G. El-Registan (1899–1945), a poet
*Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), a film director
*Evgeni Evstigneev (1926–1992), an actor
*Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), a writer
*Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), a writer
*Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), a politician
*Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), a film director
*Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), a composer
*Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), a spacecraft and rockets designer
*Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), a writer
*Raisa Gorbachyova (1932–1999), a former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union
*Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), a politician

Notable burials: H, K

*Nazim Hikmet (1901–1963), a writer
*Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), a writer
*Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aircraft designer
*Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), a composer
*Lazar Kaganovich (1892–1991), a politician
*Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), a Nobel prize winning economist
*Lev Kassil (1905–1970), a writer
*Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), a writer
*Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), a poet
*Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), Leader of the Soviet Union (1953 - 1964)
*Igor Kio (1944–2006), an illusionist
*Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904–1985), distinguished Soviet test pilot
*Olga Knipper (1868–1959), an actress
*Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), a violin virtuoso
*Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), a politician
*Pavel Korin (1892–1967), a Russian painter and art restorer
*Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), a heroic partisan
*Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), an army general
*Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944),the knapsack parachute inventor
*Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), an air force general
*Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), an opera singer
*Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist

Notable burials: L–O

*Lev Landau (1908–1968), a Nobel laureate in Physics
*Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), an army general and politician
*Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), a computer pioneer
*Sergei Lemeshev (1902–1977), an opera singer
*Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), an actor
*Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), a painter
*Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio announcer
*Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), a politician
*Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), a flying ace
*Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), a writer, translator and children's poet
*Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), a poet
*Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), a politician
*Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), a politician
*Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), a former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
*Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), a sculptor
*Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), a theater director
*Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), a clown and actor
*Alexander Novikov (1900–1976), an Air Force Marshal
*Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), a puppeteer
*Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), a geologist, geographer and explorer
*Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), a writer
*Marshal Nikolay Ogarkov (1917–1994), Chief of the Soviet General Staff 1977-1984
*David Oistrakh (1908–1974), a violin virtuoso
*Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), a scientist
*Lyubov Orlova (1902–1975), an actress
*Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), a writer

Notable burials: P, R

*Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), an army general
*Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), an actor
*Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), a poet and jazz musician
*Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), a female sniper
*Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), a ballet dancer
*Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), an army general
*Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), a mathematician
*Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), a politician
*Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), an Air Force marshal
*Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), a writer
*Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), a composer
*Aleksandr Ptushko (1900–1973), a film director
*Vyacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), a chessplayer
*Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), a stand up comedian
*Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), a pianist
*Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), a film director
*Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), a cellist
*Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), a Russian pianist and composer
*Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), a folk singer

Notable burials: S

*Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), an army general and politician
*Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), a scientist
*Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), a composer
*Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), a composer
*Ivan Sechenov (1829–1905), a physiologist
*Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), a politician
*Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), an explorer
*Valentin Serov (1865–1911), a writer and artist
*Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), an architect
*Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), a composer
*Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), a politician
*Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), a composer
*Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), a civil engineer
*Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), a writer and actor
*Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), an actor
*Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), a philosopher
*Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), a theater director
*Leopold Sulerzhitsky (1872–1916), a theater practitioner
*Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), a poet
*Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), a composer

Notable burials: T–Z

*Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), a heroic army lieutenant
*Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), a composer
*Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), a historian
*Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), a painter and architect
*Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), a choreographer
*Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), a politician
*Gherman Titov (1935–2000), a cosmonaut, second man in space
*Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), a writer
*Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), a businessman and art collector
*Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), an aircraft designer
*Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), a writer
*Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), a prima ballerina
*Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), a military judge
*Mikhail Ulyanov (1927–2007), an actor
*Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), a theater director
*Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), a physicist
*Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), a mineralogist and a geochemist
*Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957), a singer
*Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), a filmmaker
*Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), a mathematician
*Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), the first President of the Russian Federation
*Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), a poet
*Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), a chemist
*Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), an actor