Donskoye Cemetery

Donskoye Cemetery is a cemetery in Donskoy District, Russia. It was established in 1910. Wikidata records 388 notable interments here, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Lavrentiy Beria, Lavrentiy Beria.

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Notable interments

388 notable figures are documented here in Wikidata, each with a Wikipedia article and recorded burial place. The 25 most widely covered are listed below. Browse all 388, or take the JSON record.

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), screenwriter, writer, teacher
• Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953), military personnel, politician
• Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953), military personnel, politician
• Isaak Babel (1894–1940), screenwriter, writer, military personnel
• Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936), actor, politician, revolutionary
• Anton Denikin (1872–1947), writer, politician, lieutenant general
• Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), military personnel, politician
• Nikolai Yezhov (1895–1940), military personnel, politician
• Faina Ranevskaya (1896–1984), actor, stage actor, film actor
• El Lissitzky (1890–1941), photographer, architect, teacher
• Vasily Perov (1834–1882), painter
• Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940), actor, politician, playwright
• Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), historian, university teacher
• Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), photographer, architect, artist
• Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847–1921), engineer, physicist, mathematician
• Rudolf Abel (1903–1971), military personnel, military officer, intelligence agent
• Alexander Ilyich Yegorov (1883–1939), politician, marshal, military officer
• Tikhon of Moscow (1865–1925), patriarch
• Yury Lyubimov (1917–2014), actor, stage actor, drama teacher
• Valeriya Novodvorskaya (1950–2014), writer, teacher, poet
• Pyotr Chaadayev (1794–1856), politician, philosopher
• Tatyana Lioznova (1924–2011), screenwriter, lecturer, drama teacher
• Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777), writer, poet, playwright
• Oleg Penkovsky (1919–1963), military personnel, spy
• Vasili Blokhin (1895–1955), military personnel, executioner

Common questions

Where is Donskoye Cemetery?

Donskoye Cemetery is in Donskoy District, Russia, at coordinates 55.7121, 37.6023.

When was Donskoye Cemetery established?

Donskoye Cemetery was established in 1910, according to Wikidata.

Who is buried at Donskoye Cemetery?

Wikidata documents 388 notable interments at Donskoye Cemetery, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Lavrentiy Beria, Lavrentiy Beria, Isaak Babel, Grigory Zinoviev.

Records and sources

• Wikidata: Q1242128 (CC0, the source for the facts on this page)
• Wikipedia article
• Burial records on Find a Grave (external, not affiliated)