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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. 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. 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. 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 Boris Alekseyev [ru], Nikolai Archakov [ru], Ivan Afanasyev [ru], Anton Gurin [ru], Pavel Pavlov [ru], and Fyodor Simakov [ru].

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.

Individuals

Military

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Giorgi Abashvili	1910	1982	Naval commander, vice-admiral, Winter War and World War II, deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet
	Vladimir Alafuzov	1900	1966	Naval commander, admiral
	Alexander Grigoryev	1949	2008	Security services official, KGB, FSB
	Anatoly Karelin	1922	1974	Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union
	Gennady Lyachin	1955	2000	Naval officer, commanding officer of the Kursk at the time of her loss
	Dmitry Medvedev	1918	1992	Soviet Air Force Lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, Second World War, Strategic Missile Troops
	Mikhail Mikhin	1923	2007	Pilot, Korean War flying ace, Hero of the Soviet Union
	Mikhail Motsak	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.
	Yuri Panteleyev	1901	1983	Naval officer, admiral, Winter War and Second World War, commander of the Pacific Fleet
	Vasily Savvin	1939	2020	Colonel general, Ministry of Internal Affairs, first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia
	Emil Spiridonov	1925	1981	Naval officer, admiral, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
	Georgy Stepanov	1890	1957	Naval officer, vice-admiral, commander of the Onega [ru] and White Sea Military Flotillas [ru]
	Sergei Tiulpanov	1901	1987	Director of the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany
	Viktor Vasilyev	1887	1961	Naval officer, rear-admiral, academic of the Naval Academy
	Nikolai Yegipko	1903	1985	Naval officer, vice-admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union
	Ivan Yumashev	1895	1972	Naval officer, admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces
	Mikhail Zakharov	1912	1978	Naval officer, admiral, Second World War

Sport

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Konstantin Aseev	1960	2004	Chess grandmaster, trained Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev
	Valentin Boreyko	1933	2012	Olympic rower, 1960 Summer Olympics and 1964 Summer Olympics.
	Lev Burchalkin	1939	2004	Football player and coach, Zenit Leningrad, USSR
	Valentin Fyodorov	1911	1981	Football player and coach, FC Dynamo Leningrad
	Vladimir Kazachyonok	1952	2017	Football player and coach, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
	Nikolai Lyukshinov	1915	2010	Football player and coach, FC Zenit Leningrad, FC Dynamo Leningrad
	Igor Novikov	1929	2007	Olympic Modern pentathlete 1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics
	Nikolai Panin	1872	1956	Olympic figure skater and coach, 1908 Summer Olympics
	Nikolay Puzanov	1938	2008	Biathlete, 1968 Winter Olympics
	Rinnat Safin	1940	2014	Biathlete, 1972 Winter Olympics
	Nikolai Sokolov	1897	1988	Football player, FC Dynamo Leningrad, USSR
	Gennadiy Tsygankov	1947	2006	Olympic ice hockey player and coach, 1972 Winter Olympics, 1976 Winter Olympics
	Yevgeni Yeliseyev	1909	1999	Football player and coach, FC Dinamo Minsk

Arts

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Dmitry Belyaev	1921	2007	Painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, representative of the Leningrad School of Painting.
	Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova	1904	1983	Musical comedy theatre and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
	Vitaly Bujanovsky	1928	1993	Classical horn player, music teacher and composer, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Leningrad Conservatory
	Aleksandr Demyanenko	1937	1999	Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures
	Igor Dmitriev	1927	2008	Film and theatre actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Hamlet
	Boris Fenster	1916	1960	Dancer, choreographer and ballet master, Maly Theatre, Kirov Ballet
	Pavel Filonov	1883	1941	Avant-garde painter, art theorist, and poet, Soyuz Molodyozhi
	Irina Gubanova	1940	2000	Ballerina and film actress, War and Peace, Battle of Moscow
	Boris Gutnikov	1931	1986	Violinist, 1957 Long-Thibaud Competition, 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Leningrad Conservatory
	Pavel Kadochnikov	1915	1988	Actor, film director, screenwriter. Ivan the Terrible, three times Stalin Prize winner, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour
	Nikolai Kryukov	1915	1993	Film and theatre actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, The Andromeda Nebula
	Boris Lavrenko	1920	2001	Realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, representative of Leningrad School of Painting
	Iosif Langbard	1882	1951	Architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Byelorussian Theater of Opera and Ballet
	Lev Lemke	1931	1996	Actor, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, Leningrad Comedy Theatre
	Sergey Mikaelyan	1923	2016	Film director, winner USSR State Prize (1976), Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1983)
	Gennadiy Michurin	1897	1970	Stage and film actor, The Poet and the Tsar (1927), An Ardent Heart (1953)
	Yuri Morozov	1948	2006	Rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer and composer
	Joseph Serebriany	1907	1979	Painter and stage decorator, Leningrad Union of Artists, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Repin Institute of Arts, Leningrad School of Painting
	Antonina Shuranova	1936	2003	Stage, television and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR, An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
	Alla Sizova	1939	2014	Ballet dancer, Kirov Ballet
	Yuri Soloviev	1940	1977	Premier danseur, Kirov Ballet
	Mikhail Svetin	1929	2015	Actor, She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat
	Nina Veselova	1922	1960	Realist painter, graphic artist, Leningrad Union of Artists, Leningrad School of Painting
	Sergei Vikharev	1962	2017	Ballet dancer, choreographer, Mariinsky Ballet

Sciences

Image	Name	Born	Died	Occupation	Monument	Reference
	Antonina Borissova	1903	1917	Botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia
	Mikhail Budyko	1920	2001	Climatologist, one of the founders of physical climatology, author of Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface (1956)
	Alexey Bystrow	1899	1959	Paleontologist, anatomist, and histologist. Namesake of Cape Bystrova and Bystrowiana
	Ekaterina Czerniakowska	1892	1942	Botanist and taxonomist of higher plants
	Andrey Fedorov	1908	1987	Biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer
	Lev Fink	1910	1988	Physicist
	Mikhail Gurevich	1893	1976	Aircraft designer, Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau
	Moisey Kirpicznikov	1913	1995	Botanist
	Yevgeny Korotkevich	1918	1994	Scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labour, Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russian Geographical Society
	Sergey Kravkov	1894	1942	Hydrographer and Arctic explorer, First World War
	Afrikan Krishtofovich	1885	1953	Paleobotanist, fossil hunter specializing in Mesozoic flora. Author of Geological review of the countries of the Far East (1932)
	Nikolai Kudryavtsev	1893	1971	Petroleum geologist, founding father of modern abiogenic theory
	Ivan Meshchaninov	1883	1967	Linguist and ethnographer, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
	Konstantin Petrzhak	1907	1988	Nuclear physicist, professor of physics Saint Petersburg State University, spontaneous fission of uranium
	Ilya Petrushevsky	1898	1977	Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
	Mikhail Popov	1893	1955	Botanist, hybridization in plant evolution, Popoviocodonia
	Boris Schischkin	1886	1963	Botanist, Leningrad University, Schischkinia
	Ruslan Skrynnikov	1931	2009	Historian, Ivan the Terrible, Time of Troubles
	Vasily Struve	1889	1965	Orientalist
	Lev Zinder	1904	1995	Linguist, specialist in German philology

Politics and business

Group memorials

Monument	Event	Year
	To the citizens and defenders of Leningrad who died in the Siege of Leningrad	1941–1944
	To the firefighters killed in the Hotel Leningrad fire	1991
	To the dead of the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash	1981
	To those who died in the sinking of the Mekhanik Tarasov	1982
	To the soldiers who died in the Soviet–Afghan War	1979–1989
	To those who died in the Chernobyl disaster	1986
	To those who died in the sinking of the Polessk	1993
	To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Kursk	2000
	To the sailors and officers who died in the loss of the submarine Komsomolets	1989
	To the mountaineers who died in an avalanche on Lenin Peak, Pamir Mountains	1990

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References

• Danilova, Nataliya (2014). "Victims and heroes: Commemorating the Russian military casualties in the Chechen conflicts". In Anne Le Huérou; Aude Merlin; Amandine Regamey; Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (eds.). Chechnya at War and Beyond. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781317756170.
• Danilova, Nataliya (2016). The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137395719.
• Kelly, Catriona (2014). St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300198591.
• Kobak, A. V.; Pirutko, Yu. M. (1993). Исторические кладбища Петербурга. Справочник-путеводитель.

• Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery
• Lists of burials by location