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The subject index / Shuvalovskoe Cemetery

Shuvalovskoe Cemetery


Categories / Architecture/Cemeteries (see also Municipal Economy)
Categories / City Services/Cemeteries (see also Architecture and Urban Planning)

SHUVALOVSKOE CEMETERY (106a Vyborgskoe Freeway). Situated in the northern part of St. Petersburg, on the east bank of Nizhnee Suzdalskoe Lake, in the Shuvalovo District. The cemetery was set up in the mid-18th century; its present-day area covers 5 hectares. Notable figures buried there include China Studies scholar V.M. Alexeev, Tibetan medicine specialist P.A. Badmaev, linguist V.I. Chernyshev, football player M.P. Butusov, captain of the Soviet icebreaker fleet V.I. Voronin, literary theorist V.A. Desnitsky, chemist, historian and art critic V.Y. Kurbatov, sculptor V.V. Lishev, architect I.A. Monighetti, Eastern Studies scholar F.I. Saruff, singer N.K. Pechkovsky, soil scientist K.D. Glinka, chemist A.E. Poray-Koshits, geologist V.P. Nekhoroshev, other figures from science, academy, and culture, as well as Heroes of the Soviet Union P.A. Markutsa, N.A. Zelenev, V.V. Khrustitsky, A.N. Sidorovich. There are also common graves of soldiers fallen in the Great Patriotic War at the Shuvalovskoe Cemetery. The Holy Face Church in Pargolovo was built within the cemetery's grounds in 1880, and the St. Alexander Nevsky Church was built in 1886 (both were built by civil engineer K.A. Kuzmin).

Reference: Богданов И. А. Шуваловское кладбище // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 480-486.

I. A. Bogdanov.

Persons
Alexeev Vasily Mikhailovich
Badmaev Peter Alexandrovich (Zhamsaran)
Butusov Mikhail Pavlovich
Chernyshev Vasily Ilyich
Desnitsky Vasily Alexandrovich
Glinka Konstantin Dmitrievich
Khrustitsky Vladislav Vladislavovich
Kurbatov Vladimir Yakovlevich
Kuzmin Konstantin Alexeevich
Lishev Vsevolod Vsevolodovich
Markutsa Pavel Andreevich
Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich
Nekhoroshev Vasily Petrovich
Pechkovsky Nikolay Konstantinovich
Poray-Koshits Alexander Evgenievich
Saruff (Sarruf) Fadalla Ivanovich
Sidorovich Alexander Nikolaevich
Voronin Vladimir Ivanovich
Zelenov Nikolay Andreevich

Addresses
Vyborgskoe Freeway/Saint Petersburg, city, house 106, litera л. А

Bibliographies
Богданов И. А. Шуваловское кладбище // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993