Vostryakovo cemetery
The Wostrjak o wo cemetery ( Russian Востряковское кладбище ) is a municipal cemetery on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow ( Russia ).
description
The Wostrjakowo cemetery is located in the Troparjowo-Nikulino district of the western administrative district of Moscow and is one of the major cemeteries in Moscow during the Soviet era . It was founded in 1932 and named after the now defunct village of Wostryakovo. With the expansion of the city limits of Moscow to the outer ring road in 1960, the area of the former village Wostrjakowo and thus also the cemetery were incorporated into Moscow. At the same time, the territory of the necropolis was expanded to the current area of 83.57 hectares and right up to the motorway ring.
The current territory of the cemetery is divided into two parts, which are separated from each other by the street “Borowsker Chaussee” and therefore each have separate entrance gates. The northern part has an area of 25.85 hectares, the so-called central cemetery to the south of it is 57.06 hectares. The cemetery administration is based on the latter. There is also an Orthodox church there, built in the late 1990s and consecrated to John the Baptist , which is used as a cemetery chapel for funeral masses. Several sections of the central cemetery, including the main path, contain Jewish burials, which is why there is also a synagogue in the cemetery .
Graves of prominent people
- Nikolai Bobrinsky (1890–1964), zoologist
- Jelena Bonner (1923–2011), human rights activist and politician, wife of Andrei Sakharov
- Sergei Kapustin (1953–1995), ice hockey player
- Gavriil Katschalin (1911–1995), football player and coach
- Wolf Messing (1899–1974), clairvoyant and hypnotist
- Grigory Nowak (1919–1980), weightlifter
- Lew Rasgon (1908–1999), writer and human rights activist
- Alexander Roschal (1936–2007), chess journalist
- Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), nuclear physicist, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Iossif Schklowski (1916–1985), astronomer and astrophysicist
- Yuri Sewidow (1942-2010), football player and coach
- Nikolai Sologubov (1924–1988), ice hockey player
- Ivan Tregubov (1930–1992), ice hockey player
- Dmitri Ukolow (1929–1992), ice hockey player
- Arkadi Wainer (1931–2005), crime writer
See also
Web links
- Official Description (Russian)
- Website with a list of known graves in the cemetery ( Memento from July 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 39 ′ 42 " N , 37 ° 26 ′ 33" E