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,,,,, and .[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.
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] [3] [4]
| class=unsortable | Image ! | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Occupation ! | class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 1982 | [5] | ||||||||
| 1900 | 1966 | Naval commander, admiral | [6] | |||||||
| 1949 | 2008 | Security services official, KGB, FSB | [7] | |||||||
| 1922 | 1974 | [8] | ||||||||
| 1955 | 2000 | Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss | [9] | |||||||
| 1918 | 1992 | [10] | ||||||||
| 1923 | 2007 | Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union | [11] | |||||||
| 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] | |||||||
| 1901 | 1983 | [13] | ||||||||
| 1939 | 2020 | Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia | [14] | |||||||
| 1925 | 1981 | Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet | [15] | |||||||
| 1890 | 1957 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the and | [16] | |||||||
| 1901 | 1987 | [17] | ||||||||
| 1887 | 1961 | [18] | ||||||||
| 1903 | 1985 | Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union | [19] | |||||||
| 1895 | 1972 | Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces | [20] | |||||||
| 1912 | 1978 | [21] |
| class=unsortable | Image ! | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Occupation ! | class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 2004 | [22] | ||||||||
| 1933 | 2012 | Olympic rower, 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics. | [23] | |||||||
| 1939 | 2004 | |||||||||
| 1911 | 1981 | |||||||||
| 1952 | 2017 | [24] | ||||||||
| 1915 | 2010 | Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Dynamo Leningrad | [25] | |||||||
| 1929 | 2007 | Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics | [26] | |||||||
| 1872 | 1956 | Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics | ||||||||
| 1938 | 2008 | Biathlete, 1968 Winter Olympics | ||||||||
| 1940 | 2014 | Biathlete, 1972 Winter Olympics | [27] | |||||||
| 1897 | 1988 | [28] | ||||||||
| 1947 | 2006 | |||||||||
| 1909 | 1999 | [29] | ||||||||
| class=unsortable | Image ! | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Occupation ! | class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 2007 | Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting. | ||||||||
| 1904 | 1983 | Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. | [30] | |||||||
| 1928 | 1993 | [31] | ||||||||
| 1937 | 1999 | Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures | ||||||||
| 1927 | 2008 | Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Hamlet | [32] | |||||||
| 1916 | 1960 | Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre, Kirov Ballet | ||||||||
| 1883 | 1941 | Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi | ||||||||
| 1940 | 2000 | Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace, Battle of Moscow | [33] | |||||||
| 1931 | 1986 | |||||||||
| 1915 | 1988 | [34] | ||||||||
| 1915 | 1993 | Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, The Andromeda Nebula | ||||||||
| 1920 | 2001 | Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, representative of Leningrad School of Painting | ||||||||
| 1882 | 1951 | [35] [36] | ||||||||
| 1931 | 1996 | Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Comedy Theatre | ||||||||
| 1923 | 2016 | Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983) | [37] | |||||||
| 1897 | 1970 | Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953) | ||||||||
| 1948 | 2006 | Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer | ||||||||
| 1907 | 1979 | |||||||||
| 1936 | 2003 | Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR, An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano | [38] | |||||||
| 1939 | 2014 | [39] | ||||||||
| 1940 | 1977 | |||||||||
| 1929 | 2015 | Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat | [40] | |||||||
| 1922 | 1960 | [41] | ||||||||
| 1962 | 2017 | [42] | ||||||||
| class=unsortable | Image ! | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Occupation ! | class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | 1917 | Botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia | ||||||||
| 1920 | 2001 | Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956) | ||||||||
| 1899 | 1959 | Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana | [43] | |||||||
| 1892 | 1942 | Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants | [44] | |||||||
| 1908 | 1987 | Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer | ||||||||
| 1910 | 1988 | Physicist | ||||||||
| 1893 | 1976 | [45] | ||||||||
| 1913 | 1995 | Botanist | ||||||||
| 1918 | 1994 | [46] | ||||||||
| 1894 | 1942 | Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War | [47] | |||||||
| 1885 | 1953 | Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932) | [48] [49] | |||||||
| 1893 | 1971 | Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory | [50] | |||||||
| 1883 | 1967 | [51] | ||||||||
| 1907 | 1988 | Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium | [52] | |||||||
| 1898 | 1977 | Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
| 1893 | 1955 | Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia | ||||||||
| 1886 | 1963 | Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia | [53] | |||||||
| 1931 | 2009 | [54] | ||||||||
| 1889 | 1965 | Orientalist | [55] | |||||||
| 1904 | 1995 | Linguist, specialist in German philology | ||||||||
| class=unsortable | Image ! | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Occupation ! | class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 2012 | [56] | ||||||||
| 1946 | 2014 | [57] | ||||||||
| 1962 | 2004 | [58] | ||||||||
| class=unsortable | Monument ! | class=unsortable | Event ! | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941–1944 | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| 1981 | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| 1979–1989 | ||||
| 1986 | ||||
| To those who died in the sinking of the Polessk | 1993 | |||
| 2000 | ||||
| 1989 | ||||
| 1990 | ||||