Komorovskoe Cemetery

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KOMOROVSKOE CEMETERY (Komarovo village) is situated in resort area near St. Petersburg, five kilometres from Komarovo Railway Station, on the road to Shchuchye Lake, and not bigger than a hectare. The region has been in use since the 1910s; burials began in the 1950s. Besides the locals Leningrad scientists, literary and artistic figures were buried at Komorovskoe Cemetery due to its location to the holiday villages of the Academy of Sciences, Litfond (a foundation to assist writers), artistic houses and private summer residences of the Leningrad intelligentsia. In 1966, A.A. Akhmatova was buried there (the tomb made by sculptor A.M. Ignatyev). About 40 full members and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences are buried at the cemetery. Among the buried are: philologists and literary theorists V.P. Adrianova-Peretts, M.P. Alexeev, V.M. Zhirmunsky, D.S. Likhachev, B.S. Meylakh, V.F. Shishmaryev, physicists V.P. Linnik, N.A. Toropov, V.A. Fok, chemists A.A. Grinberg, geologist D.V. Nalivkin, oncologist N.N. Petrov, polar explorers M.M. Somov, A.F. Treshnikov, chief engineer of the atomic icebreaker A.E. Perevozchikov, artist N.I. Altman, film director I.S. Aranovich, N.B. Birman, N.N. Koshaverova, I.E. Heifits, composer V.E. Basner, producer and pedagogue A.I. Katzman, writers B.B. Vakhtin, L.Y. Ginzburg, A.I. Gitovich, I.A. Efremov, V.F. Panova, M.L. Slonimsky, V.V. Toropygin, ballerina T.M. Vecheslova, musician S.A. Kuryekhin and many others.

References: Кобак А. В., Пирютко Ю. М., Нырков А. А. Комаровский некрополь: Материалы к ист. описанию // Памятники истории и культуры Санкт-Петербурга: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1997. Вып. 4. С. 405-461.

Y. M. Piryutko. Adrianova-Peretts Varvara Pavlovna
Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Alexeev Mikhail Pavlovich
Altman Natan Isaevich
Aronovich Ilya Savvich
Basner Veniamin Efimovich
Birman Naum Borisovich
Efremov Ivan Antonovich
Fok Vladimir Alexandrovich
Ginzburg Lidia Yakovlevna
Gitovich Alexander Ilyich
Grinberg Alexander Abramovich
Heifits Iosif Efimovich
Ignatyev Alexander Mikhailovich
Katzman Arkady Iosifovich
Kosheverova Nadezhda Nikolaevna
Kurekhin Sergey Anatolievich
Likhachev Dmitry Sergeevich
Linnik Vladimir Pavlovich
Meylakh Boris Solomonovich
Nalivkin Dmitry Vasilievich
Panova Vera Fedorovna
Perevozchikov Andrey Egorovich
Petrov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Shishmarev Vladimir Fedorovich
Slonimsky Mikhail Leonidovich
Somov Mikhail Mikhailovich
Toropov Nikita Alexandrovich
Toropygin Vladimir Vasilievich
Treshnikov Alexey Fedorovich
Vakhtin Boris Borisovich
Vecheslova Tatyana Mikhailovna
Zhirmunsky Viktor Maximovich
Кобак А. В., Пирютко Ю. М., Нырков А. А. Комаровский некрополь: Материалы к ист. описанию // Памятники истории и культуры Санкт-Петербурга: Исслед. и материалы. СПб., 1997