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]
Image |
Name |
Born |
Died |
Occupation |
Monument |
Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giorgi Abashvili | 1910 | 1982 | Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet | [5] | ||
Vladimir Alafuzov | 1900 | 1966 | Naval commander, admiral | [6] | ||
Alexander Grigoryev | 1949 | 2008 | Security services official, KGB, FSB | [7] | ||
Anatoly Karelin | 1922 | 1974 | Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union | [8] | ||
Gennady Lyachin | 1955 | 2000 | Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss | [9] | ||
Dmitry Medvedev | 1918 | 1992 | Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops | [10] | ||
Mikhail Mikhin | 1923 | 2007 | Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union | [11] | ||
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. | [12] | ||
Yuri Panteleyev | 1901 | 1983 | Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet | [13] | ||
Vasily Savvin | 1939 | 2020 | Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia | [14] | ||
Emil Spiridonov | 1925 | 1981 | Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet | [15] | ||
Georgy Stepanov | 1890 | 1957 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the Onega and White Sea Military Flotillas | [16] | ||
Sergei Tiulpanov | 1901 | 1987 | Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany | [17] | ||
Viktor Vasilyev | 1887 | 1961 | Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy | [18] | ||
Nikolai Yegipko | 1903 | 1985 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union | [19] | ||
Ivan Yumashev | 1895 | 1972 | Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces | [20] | ||
Mikhail Zakharov | 1912 | 1978 | Naval officer, admiral, Second World War | [21] |
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 | [24] | ||
Mikhail Budyko | 1920 | 2001 | Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956) | [24] | ||
Alexey Bystrow | 1899 | 1959 | Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana | [24] | ||
Ekaterina Czerniakowska | 1892 | 1942 | Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants | [44] | ||
Andrey Fedorov | 1908 | 1987 | Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer | [24] | ||
Lev Fink | 1910 | 1988 | Physicist | [24] | ||
Mikhail Gurevich | 1893 | 1976 | Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau | [45] [24] | ||
Moisey Kirpicznikov | 1913 | 1995 | Botanist | [24] | ||
Yevgeny Korotkevich | 1918 | 1994 | Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russian Geographical Society | [46] | ||
Sergey Kravkov | 1894 | 1942 | Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War | [47] | ||
Afrikan Krishtofovich | 1885 | 1953 | Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932) | [48] [49] [24] | ||
Nikolai Kudryavtsev | 1893 | 1971 | Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory | [50] | ||
Ivan Meshchaninov | 1883 | 1967 | Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography | [51] | ||
Konstantin Petrzhak | 1907 | 1988 | Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium | [52] | ||
Ilya Petrushevsky | 1898 | 1977 | Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences | [24] | ||
Mikhail Popov | 1893 | 1955 | Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia | [24] | ||
Boris Schischkin | 1886 | 1963 | Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia | [53] | ||
Ruslan Skrynnikov | 1931 | 2009 | Historian, Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles | [54] | ||
Vasily Struve | 1889 | 1965 | Orientalist | [24] [55] | ||
Lev Zinder | 1904 | 1995 | Linguist, specialist in German philology | [24] |
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 | [56] | ||
Yury Shutov | 1946 | 2014 | Politician, investigated Anatoly Sobchak, Vladimir Putin | [57] | ||
Roman Tsepov | 1962 | 2004 | Businessman, confidant to Vladimir Putin | [58] |
Monument |
Event |
Year |
---|---|---|
To the citizens and defenders of Leningrad who died in the Siege of Leningrad [24] | 1941–1944 | |
To the firefighters killed in the Hotel Leningrad fire [24] | 1991 | |
To the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash [24] | 1981 | |
To those who died in the sinking of the Mekhanik Tarasov [24] | 1982 | |
To the soldiers who died in the Soviet–Afghan War [24] | 1979–1989 | |
To those who died in the Chernobyl disaster [24] | 1986 | |
To those who died in the sinking of the Polessk [24] | 1993 | |
To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Kursk [24] | 2000 | |
To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Komsomolets [24] | 1989 | |
To the mountaineers who died in an avalanche on Lenin Peak, Pamir Mountains [24] | 1990 |
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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]
Image |
Name |
Born |
Died |
Occupation |
Monument |
Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giorgi Abashvili | 1910 | 1982 | Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet | [5] | ||
Vladimir Alafuzov | 1900 | 1966 | Naval commander, admiral | [6] | ||
Alexander Grigoryev | 1949 | 2008 | Security services official, KGB, FSB | [7] | ||
Anatoly Karelin | 1922 | 1974 | Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union | [8] | ||
Gennady Lyachin | 1955 | 2000 | Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss | [9] | ||
Dmitry Medvedev | 1918 | 1992 | Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops | [10] | ||
Mikhail Mikhin | 1923 | 2007 | Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union | [11] | ||
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. | [12] | ||
Yuri Panteleyev | 1901 | 1983 | Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet | [13] | ||
Vasily Savvin | 1939 | 2020 | Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia | [14] | ||
Emil Spiridonov | 1925 | 1981 | Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet | [15] | ||
Georgy Stepanov | 1890 | 1957 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the Onega and White Sea Military Flotillas | [16] | ||
Sergei Tiulpanov | 1901 | 1987 | Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany | [17] | ||
Viktor Vasilyev | 1887 | 1961 | Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy | [18] | ||
Nikolai Yegipko | 1903 | 1985 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union | [19] | ||
Ivan Yumashev | 1895 | 1972 | Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces | [20] | ||
Mikhail Zakharov | 1912 | 1978 | Naval officer, admiral, Second World War | [21] |
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 | [24] | ||
Mikhail Budyko | 1920 | 2001 | Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956) | [24] | ||
Alexey Bystrow | 1899 | 1959 | Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana | [24] | ||
Ekaterina Czerniakowska | 1892 | 1942 | Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants | [44] | ||
Andrey Fedorov | 1908 | 1987 | Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer | [24] | ||
Lev Fink | 1910 | 1988 | Physicist | [24] | ||
Mikhail Gurevich | 1893 | 1976 | Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau | [45] [24] | ||
Moisey Kirpicznikov | 1913 | 1995 | Botanist | [24] | ||
Yevgeny Korotkevich | 1918 | 1994 | Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russian Geographical Society | [46] | ||
Sergey Kravkov | 1894 | 1942 | Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War | [47] | ||
Afrikan Krishtofovich | 1885 | 1953 | Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932) | [48] [49] [24] | ||
Nikolai Kudryavtsev | 1893 | 1971 | Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory | [50] | ||
Ivan Meshchaninov | 1883 | 1967 | Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography | [51] | ||
Konstantin Petrzhak | 1907 | 1988 | Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium | [52] | ||
Ilya Petrushevsky | 1898 | 1977 | Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences | [24] | ||
Mikhail Popov | 1893 | 1955 | Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia | [24] | ||
Boris Schischkin | 1886 | 1963 | Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia | [53] | ||
Ruslan Skrynnikov | 1931 | 2009 | Historian, Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles | [54] | ||
Vasily Struve | 1889 | 1965 | Orientalist | [24] [55] | ||
Lev Zinder | 1904 | 1995 | Linguist, specialist in German philology | [24] |
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 | [56] | ||
Yury Shutov | 1946 | 2014 | Politician, investigated Anatoly Sobchak, Vladimir Putin | [57] | ||
Roman Tsepov | 1962 | 2004 | Businessman, confidant to Vladimir Putin | [58] |
Monument |
Event |
Year |
---|---|---|
To the citizens and defenders of Leningrad who died in the Siege of Leningrad [24] | 1941–1944 | |
To the firefighters killed in the Hotel Leningrad fire [24] | 1991 | |
To the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash [24] | 1981 | |
To those who died in the sinking of the Mekhanik Tarasov [24] | 1982 | |
To the soldiers who died in the Soviet–Afghan War [24] | 1979–1989 | |
To those who died in the Chernobyl disaster [24] | 1986 | |
To those who died in the sinking of the Polessk [24] | 1993 | |
To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Kursk [24] | 2000 | |
To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Komsomolets [24] | 1989 | |
To the mountaineers who died in an avalanche on Lenin Peak, Pamir Mountains [24] | 1990 |
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