Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery

Notable burials: A–C

 * 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
 * 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

Notable burials: D–G

 * 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
 * Andrei Gromyko (1909–1989), politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
 * Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935–2011), popular actress, singer and entertainer

Notable burials: H–K

 * 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

Notable burials: L–O

 * 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

Notable burials: P–R

 * 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

Notable burials: S

 * 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

Notable burials: T–Z

 * 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