Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery

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• Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907–1948), mountaineer and sculptor
• Alexei Abrikosov (1875–1955), physician and pathologist
• Andrei Abrikosov (1906–1973), actor
• Grigori Abrikosov (1932–1993), actor
• Sergey Afanasyev (1918–2001), first Soviet space industry minister
• Ivan Agayants (1911–1968), KGB officer and foreign spy
• Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859), writer
• Vsevolod Aksyonov (1902–1960), actor
• Karo Alabyan (1897–1959), architect
• Alexander Alexandrov (1883–1946), founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble
• Boris Alexandrov (1905–1994), leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble
• Abraham Alikhanov, (1904–1970), physicist
• Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901–1932), wife of Joseph Stalin
• Daniil Andreev (1906–1959), writer
• Averky Aristov (1903–1973), politician and diplomat
• Coretti Arle-Titz (1883-1951), singer and actress
• Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010), mathematician
• Vasily Azhayev (1915–1968), writer
• Nikolai Basistiy (1898–1971), naval admiral
• Pavel Batov (1897–1985), army general
• Demyan Bedny (1883–1945), writer
• Andrei Bely (1880–1934), writer
• Pavel Belyayev (1925–1970), cosmonaut
• Georgi Beregovoi (1921–1995), cosmonaut
• Mark Bernes (1911–1969), actor and singer
• Aleksandr Blagonravov (1906–1962), military engineer
• Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina (1859–1938), actress
• Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich (1873–1955), writer
• Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), actor and director
• Artyom Borovik (1960–2000), journalist and businessman
• Mikhail Botvinnik (1911–1995), chess champion
• Valeriy Brumel (1942–2003), athlete champion
• Valery Bryusov (1873–1924), writer
• Serafima Bryusova (1894–1958), first female neurosurgeon
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1881–1940), playwright and author
• Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975), Marshal of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union
• Nikolai Burdenko (1876–1946), neurosurgeon
• Rolan Bykov (1929–1998), actor
• Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), opera singer
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), writer
• Vladimir Chelomei (1914–1984), rocket engineer
• Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990), Nobel laureate in Physics
• Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906–1945), General of the Army
• Georgi Chicherin (1872–1936), statesman
• Inna Churikova (1943-2023), Actress

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• Yakov Dashevsky (1902–1972), army general
• Kuzma Derevyanko (1904–1954), army general
• Alexander Deyneka (1899–1969), painter and sculptor
• Lev Dovator (1903–1941), army general
• Nikolai Dudorov (1906–1977), Soviet politician and civil servant
• Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), composer and conductor
• Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967), writer
• G. El-Registan (1899–1945), poet
• Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), film director
• Ivan Fadeev (1906–1976), long-term finance minister
• Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), writer
• Klavdia Fomicheva, (1917–1958), WWII pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
• Dmitri Furmanov (1891–1926), writer
• Ekaterina Furtseva (1910–1974), politician
• Shakir Geniatullin (1895–1946), army general
• Sergei Gerasimov (1906–1985), film director
• Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), composer
• Valentin Glushko (1908–1989), spacecraft and rockets designer
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), writer
• Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022), Last Leader of the Soviet Union and former President of the Soviet Union
• Raisa Gorbacheva (1932–1999), former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union and wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
• Ivan Gren (1898–1960), vice-admiral
• Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
• Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935–2011), popular actress, singer and entertainer

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• Nazim Hikmet (1901–1963), Turkish poet
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962–2017), opera singer
• Ilya Ilf (1897–1937), writer
• Sergey Ilyushin (1894–1977), aeroplanes designer
• Archie Johnstone (1896-1963), journalist
• Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987), composer
• Lazar Kaganovich (1893–1991), last of the Old Bolsheviks
• Nikolay Kamov (1902–1973), helicopters designer
• Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986), Nobel Prize–winning economist
• Lev Kassil (1905–1970), writer
• Valentin Kataev (1897–1986), writer
• Anatoly Kharlampiyev (1906–1979), founder of sambo
• Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922), poet
• Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), Leader of the Soviet Union (1953–1964)
• Sergei Khrushchev (1935–2020), engineer and academic, son of Nikita Khrushchev
• Igor Kio (1944–2006), illusionist
• Vladimir Kokkinaki (1904–1985), distinguished Soviet test pilot
• Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987), eminent mathematician
• Boris Korolev (1885–1963), avant-garde sculptor
• Olga Knipper (1868–1959), actress
• Rustam Khan Khoyski (1888–1948), Minister of Social Security of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
• Leonid Kogan (1924–1982), violin virtuoso
• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), politician
• Pavel Korin (1892–1967), painter and art restorer
• Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923–1941), partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Koshevoy (1904–1976), Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Gleb Kotelnikov (1872–1944),the knapsack parachute inventor
• Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991), air force general
• Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), opera singer
• Ernst Krenkel (1903–1971), explorer and radio operator
• Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (1950–2003), ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), Russia's foremost anarchist
• Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), film theorist and director
• Vladimir Krinsky (1890–1971), artist and architect

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• Lev Landau (1908–1968), Nobel laureate in Physics
• Alexander Lebed (1950–2002), army general and politician
• Sergei Lebedev (1902–1974), computer pioneer
• Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898–1949), poet and singer
• Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii (1881–1948), director of Glavlit
• Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Hero of the Russian Federation, chief of commission that investigated 1986 Chernobyl disaster
• Sergei Lemeshev (1902–1977), opera singer
• Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), actor
• Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), painter
• Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio announcer
• Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), politician
• Matvey Manizer (1891–1966), Socialist realist sculptor
• Alexei Maresiev (1916–2001), flying ace
• Samuil Marshak (1887–1964), writer, translator and children's poet
• Ekaterina Maximova (1939–2009), prima ballerina
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), poet
• Victor Merzhanov (1919–2012), pianist
• Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
• Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), politician and former premier
• Kirill Moskalenko (1902–1985), former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
• Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), sculptor
• Alexander Nadiradze (1914–1987), missile/weapon engineer and designer
• Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943), theater director
• Grigory Nikulin (1895–1965), Bolshevik revolutionary and chekist
• Yuri Nikulin (1921–1997), clown and actor
• Alexander Novikov (1900–1976), Air Force Marshal
• Sergey Obraztsov (1901–1992), puppeteer
• Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956), geologist, geographer and explorer
• Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), writer
• Nikolay Ogarkov (1917–1994), Marshal and Chief of the Soviet General Staff (1977–1984)
• David Oistrakh (1908–1974), violin virtuoso
• Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), scientist
• Lyubov Orlova (1902–1975), actress
• Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936), writer
• Arkady Ostrovsky (1914-1967), composer

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• Ivan Panfilov (1892–1941), army general
• Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), actor
• Valentin Parnakh (1891–1951), poet and jazz musician
• Vera Pashennaya (1887–1962), actress of theater and cinema
• Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916–1974), female sniper
• Ivan Petrov (1896–1958), army general
• Ivan Petrovsky (1901–1973), mathematician
• Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
• Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin (1913–1985), Air Force marshal
• Boris Polevoy (1908–1981), writer
• Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov (1892–1944), aircraft constructor
• Vitaly Popkov (1922–2010), pilot
• Pyotr Pospelov (1898–1971), high-ranked Communist Party functionary
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), composer
• Aleksandr Ptushko (1900–1973), film director
• Vyacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), chessplayer
• Arkady Raikin (1911–1987), stand up comedian
• Irina Rakobolskaya (1919–2016), chief of staff all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment in WWII; physicist
• Aleksandr Razumny (1891–1972), film director
• Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), pianist
• George de Roerich (1902–1960), tibetologist
• Mikhail Romm (1901–1971), film director
• Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007), cellist
• Elena Rozmirovich (1886–1953), politician
• Nikolai Rubinstein (1835–1881), pianist and composer
• Lidiya Ruslanova (1900–1973), folk singer

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• Alexander Saburov (1908–1974), army general and politician
• Ivan Samylovsky (1905–1971), diplomat
• Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), scientist
• Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), composer
• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), composer
• Ivan Sechenov (1829–1905), physiologist
• Nikolai Semashko (1874–1949), politician
• Yuri Senkevich (1937–2003), explorer
• Valentin Serov (1865–1911), writer and artist
• Boris Shcherbina (1919–1990), politician, oversaw recovery efforts after 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Spitak earthquake
• Alexey Shchusev (1873–1949), architect
• Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), composer
• Dmitri Shepilov (1905–1995), politician
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), composer
• Vladimir Shukhov (1853–1939), civil engineer
• Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974), writer and actor
• Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925–1994), actor
• Pyotr Sobennikov (1894–1960), general
• Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), tenor and director of the Bolshoi Theatre
• Sergei Sokolov (1911–2012), Marshal of the Soviet Union, defense minister
• Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), philosopher
• Konstantin Stanislavski (1863–1938), theater director
• Alexei Starobinsky (1948-2923), theoretical physicist and cosmologist
• Pavel Sukhoi (1895–1975), aerospace engineer
• Leopold Sulerzhitsky (1872–1916), theater practitioner
• Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov (1903–1964), poet
• Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), composer

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• Viktor Talalikhin (1918–1941), heroic army lieutenant
• Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915), composer
• Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya (1891–1968), poet and playwright
• Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), historian
• Vladimir Tatlin (1885–1953), painter and architect
• Vasily Tikhomirov (1876–1956), choreographer
• Nikolai Tikhonov (1905–1997), politician
• Gherman Titov (1935–2000), cosmonaut, second man in space
• Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945), writer
• Pavel Tretyakov (1832–1898), businessman and art collector
• Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972), aircraft designer
• Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971), writer
• Galina Ulanova (1909–1998), prima ballerina
• Vasili Ulrikh (1889–1951), military judge
• Mikhail Ulyanov (1927–2007), actor
• Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883–1922), theater director
• Arkady Volsky (1932–2006), politician and businessman
• Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), physicist
• Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), mineralogist and a geochemist
• Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957), singer
• Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), filmmaker
• Ivan Vinogradov (1891–1983), mathematician
• Galina Vishnevskaya (1926–2012), operatic soprano & wife of Mstislav Rostropovich
• Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896–1934), psychologist
• Boris Yefimov (1899/1900–2008), political cartoonist
• Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), the first president of the Russian Federation
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (1926–1992), actor
• Yakov Yurovsky (1878–1938), chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
• Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), poet
• Nikolay Zelinskiy (1861–1953), chemist
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946-2022), politician and lawyer
• Georgiy Zhzhonov (1915–2005), actor

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