Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery
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[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
