Trojekurovo cemetery

Cemetery chapel

The Trojek u rowo cemetery ( Russian Троекуровское кладбище ) is a cemetery in Moscow ( Russia ) established in 1962 . It is administered as a branch of the Novodevichy Cemetery and is a burial place for numerous prominent personalities from politics, culture and science.

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The cemetery is located in the Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye district in the Western Moscow Region. It can be reached via the outer Moscow ring road MKAD (Trojekurowski Projesd exit), the cheapest public transport connection is the Mosgortrans bus 612, which runs between the main entrance of the cemetery and the Kunzewskaya metro station . The Kunzewoer Friedhof is just one kilometer north on the same street .

The Trojekurowo cemetery, for which the former village Trojekurowo (which was incorporated into Moscow in 1960) is named, has 14 sections with a total area of almost 21 hectares. There is a cemetery chapel on the site and an ensemble in the entrance area that was created in the 1970s, including a morgue and two mourning halls with a capacity of 600 (the largest in Russia) or 100 people.

Graves of prominent people

Grave sculpture of Dmitri Kholodov

Tombstone of the Kolbin couple

Tomb of the married couple Pugo

Tombstone of Igor Sergeyev

Since the cemetery was founded, high-ranking politicians and military officials from the former Soviet Union have often been buried here. Even after the end of the Soviet state, many prominent people find their final resting place in the Trojekurowoer cemetery.

The most famous deceased buried here include:

Pyotr Abrasimov (1912–2009), diplomat (Section 2)
Sergei Achromeev (1923–1991), Marshal of the Soviet Union (Section 2)
Weniamin Alexandrow (1937–1991), ice hockey player (section 2)
Isidor Annenski (1906–1977), director (section 1)
Vladimir Pavlovich Belyayev (1907–1990), Soviet writer and screenwriter
Matwei Burlakow (1935–2011), Colonel General, last commander in chief of the Soviet Armed Forces group in Germany
Dmitri Cholodow (1967–1994), journalist (Section 3)
Tatjana Dmitrijewa (1951-2010), doctor and politician (Section 1)
Weronika Dudarowa (1916–2009), conductor
Semjon Farada (1933–2009), actor (Section 6)
Georgi Farafonow (1919–1993), diplomat
Vitaly Fedorchuk (1918–2008), politician
Konstantin Feoktistow (1926-2009), cosmonaut (section 6)
Boris Fjodorow (1958–2008), economist and politician
Wladislaw Galkin (1971-2010), actor (Section 6)
Anatoli Gribkow (1919-2008), Army General (Section 14)
Wassili Grossman (1905–1964), writer and journalist (Section 10)
Alexander Jakowlew (1923-2005), writer and politician (Section 10a)
Gennady Janayev (1937–2010), politician and Vice President of the USSR
Iwan Jarygin (1948–1997), wrestler (Section 4)
Georgi Jegorow (1918–2008), fleet admiral
Nikolai Semjonowitsch Kardaschow (1932-2019), astrophysicist (Section 27a)
Vladimir Karpov (1922-2010), writer (section 14)
Ivan Kazanets (1918–2013), Ukrainian-Soviet politician
Konstantin Katuschew (1927-2010), diplomat and politician (Section 7g)
Andrei Kirilenko (1906–1990), politician (Section 1)
Gennadi Kolbin (1927–1998), politician (Section 4)
Andrei Koslow (1965-2006), banker (Section 6a)
Vyacheslav Kochemassov (1918–1998), diplomat and politician
Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924-2007), secret service functionary (Section 10a)
Nikolai Kruchina (1928–1991), politician (Section 2)
Alfred Kutschewski (1931-2000), ice hockey player (section 4)
Juri Lewada (1930-2006), sociologist and political scientist (Section 10a)
Yuri Masljukow (1937-2010), politician (Section 4)
Vladimir Melnikov (1935-2010), politician
Georgi Milljar (1903-1993), actor (Section 3)
Yevgeny Mishakov (1941–2007), ice hockey player
Yuri Moissejew (1940-2005), ice hockey player (Section 7)
Jelena Muchina (1960-2006), gymnast (section 13a)
Julija Natschalowa (1981-2019), singer and actress
Boris Nemtsov (1959–2015), politician
Jelena Petuschkowa (1940-2007), dressage rider and biochemist (Section 6a)
Lyubov Polishchuk (1949-2006), actress (Section 6a)
Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006), journalist and human rights activist (Section 7)
Pawel Popowitsch (1930-2009), cosmonaut (Section 6)
Anatoly Pristavkin (1931–2008), writer and human rights activist
Boris Pugo (1937–1991), politician (Section 1)
Mikhail Saizew (1923–2009), Army General and Commander in Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces Group in Germany (Section 7)
Daniil Schafran (1923–1997), cellist (section 2)
Michail Schatrow (1932-2010), playwright
Oleg Schenin (1937–2009), politician (Section 10a)
Vladimir Semitschastny (1924–2001), secret service functionary (Section 4)
Igor Sergejew (1938-2006), Marshal and Politician (Section 6)
Anatoly Sofronov (1911–1990), writer (Section 2)
Vasily Stalin (1921-1962, was to Trojekurowo 2002 reburied ), General, son of Joseph Stalin (Section 13)
Valentina Tolkunova (1946-2010), singer (section 6)
Witali Tschurkin (1952-2017), diplomat (Section 8)
Valentin Varennikow (1923–2009), General and Politician (Section 4)
Mikhail Wodopyanow (1899–1980), pilot in World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union (Section 1)
Arseni Voroscheikin (1912-2001), pilot in World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union (Section 4)
Witali Wulf (1930–2011), art historian