Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery

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Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnaya (Красная Пресная) district of Moscow, Russia. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia and the old Soviet Union.

Some of those interred here are:

Inga Artamonova (1936–1966), world speed-skating champion
Vladimir Dal (1801–1872), lexicographer
Sergei Grinkov (1967–1995), world ice skating pairs champion
Lyudmila Pakhomova (1946–1986), world & Olympic ice dancing pairs champion
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), scientist, social reformer, statesman
Vasily Surikov (1848–1916), painter
Igor Talkov (1956–1991), poet, singer-songwriter
Vladimir Vysotsky (1938–1980), actor, singer
Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925), poet, husband of Isadora Duncan