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Seraphimovskoe Cemetery


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

SERAPHIMOVSKOE CEMETERY (1 Serebryakov Lane). Situated in Novaya Derevnya, between the Sestroretskaya Railway Line, Torphyanaya Road and Bogatyrsky Avenue. Its area covers about 60 hectares. In was set up in 1905; the wooden Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov was constructed in 1906-07 (architect N.N. Nikonov; hence the name). In 1941, the Seraphimovskoe Cemetery served mainly for burials of residents of adjacent areas. During the Siege of Leningrad, it was the second largest site for mass burials of Leningraders (after the Piskaryevskoe Memorial Cemetery; over 100,000 people were buried here, according to another source some 200,000-300,000 people). In 1957-65, a memorial sculpture set was constructed in commemoration of the 21st Anniversary of the Lifting the Siege, and was ceremonially opened on the site of 16 common graves (architect Y.I. Lukin, sculptor R.K. Taurit); a four-story granite portico with 5 monumental sculptures depicting the city defenders was placed in its centre. In front of the portico is a granite cube with an eternal flame; the square is paved with black labradorite. The authors of the poetic epitaph are M.A. Dudin, S.S. Orlov, and other poets. A separate lot was allocated for common graves of soldiers fallen in the Afghanistan Campaign (a monument was installed in 1996, sculptor E.N. Rotanov), the Chechnya Campaign, and victims of several disasters, including the Mekhanik Tarasov freighter, the Kursk Submarine Cruiser (the memorial was opened in 2003), the Leningrad Hotel Fire, and others. Among those buried at the Seraphimovskoe Cemetery are artist P.N. Filonov; architects N.N. Belekhov, I.G. Langbard, and E.A. Levinson; ballet performers F.I. Balabina and Y.V. Solovyev; musicians I.A. Braudo and M.I. Vaiman; authors N.V. Krandievskaya-Tolstaya and P.N. Luknitsky; actors P.P. Kadochnikov and O.Y. Lebzak; and film director P.V. Shmakov.

Reference: Андреев А. И. Серафимовское кладбище // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 521-533.

Y. M. Piryutko.

Persons
Balabina Feya Ivanovna
Belekhov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Braudo Isaya Alexandrovich
Dudin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Filonov Pavel Nikolaevich
Kadochnikov Pavel Petrovich
Krandievskaya-Tolstaya Natalia Vasilievna
Langbard Iosif Grigorievich
Lebzak Olga Yakovlevna
Levinson Evgeny Adolfovich
Lukin Yakov Nikolaevich
Luknitsky Pavel Nikolaevich
Nikonov Nikolay Nikitich
Orlov Sergey Sergeevich
Rotanov Evgeny Nikitich
Shmakov Pavel Vasilievich
Solovyev Yury Vladimirovich
Taurit Robert Karlovich
Uchitel Efim Yulievich
Weiman Mikhail Emirovich

Addresses
Bogatyrsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Serebryakov Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Torfyanaya Road/Saint Petersburg, city

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

The subject Index
Siege of 1941-44

Chronograph
1965


Belekhov N.N. (1904-1956), architect

BELEKHOV Nikolay Nikolaevich (1904-1956, Leningrad), civil engineer, architect. Graduated from the Department of Architecture of the College of Public Engineering (1933)

Bogdanova-Chesnokova G.V. (1904-1983), singer

BOGDANOVA-CHESNOKOVA Glikeria Vasilievna (1904, St. Petersburg - 1983, Leningrad), musical comedy actress, People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1970). Made her debut in 1920 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre as Lucile in J

Cemeteries (entry)

CEMETERIES. Even before the foundation of St. Petersburg there were several necropolises on the location of the future city: the records of the beginning of the 18th century indicate a Finnish-Swedish cemetery at Elagin (Aptekarsky) Island

Dmitriev A.I. (1879-1959), architect.

DMITRIEV Alexander Ivanovich (1878-1959, Leningrad), architect and architectural critic, Ph.D in architecture (1947), full member of the Academy of Architecture (1939)

Eney Е.Е., (1890-1971), cinema artist

ENEY Evgeny Evgenievich (1890-1971, Leningrad), film designer, People’s Artist of the USSR in 1969. Studied at the Academy of Arts, Budapest, in 1910-14. Participated in the Civil War as a Hungarian Internationalist

Evdokimov S.I. (1911-1972), architect.

EVDOKIMOV Sergey Ivanovich (1911, St. Peterburg - 1972, Leningrad), architect, architect emeritus of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1970). He graduated from the Leningrad College of Engineering and Urban Planning (1934)

Filonov P.N., (1883-1941), artist

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Flittner N.D. (1879-1957), Eastern Studies scholar

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Garshin V.G. (1887-1956), pathologist

GARSHIN Vladimir Georgievich (1887-1956, Leningrad), pathologist, Member of the Academy of the Medical Sciences of the USSR (1945). He graduated from Kiev University in 1913, working in Leningrad from 1923

Great Patriotic War, Monuments to (entry)

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Grimm D.I., Grimm G.D., Grimm G.G., architects

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Isaev V. I., (1854-1911), doctor

ISAEV Vasily Isaevich (1854-1911, St. Petersburg), doctor, microbiologist, Doctor of Medicine (1887). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Moscow University (1877)

Ivanov А.G. (1898-1984), film director

IVANOV Alexander Gavrilovich (1898-1984, Leningrad), film director and script writer; People’s Artist of the USSR in 1964, Honoured Worker of Arts of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947

Kadochnikov P.P. (1915-1988) film actor

KADOCHNIKOV Pavel Petrovich (1915, Petrograd - 1988, Leningrad), actor, film director, People’s Artist of the USSR (1979), Hero of Socialist Labour (1985). After graduating from the Leningrad Theatre Institute he worked as an actor at Leningrad’s

Kovaleva G.V. (1932-1995), singer

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Lang G. F., (1875 - 1948), physician

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Lavrov S.B. (1928 - 2000), geographer

LAVROV Sergey Borisovich (1928, Leningrad - 2000, St. Petersburg), geographer, received a Ph.D. (geography) in 1968 and Honoured Worker of Science of the Russian Federation in 1998

Levinson E.A. (1894-1968), architect

LEVINSON Evgeny Adolfovich (1894-1968, Leningrad), architect and artist, Associate of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR (from 1941), Doctor of Architecture (1946)

Levitsky N.A. (1911-1982), film director

LEVITSKY Nikolay Alexeevich (1911-1982, Leningrad), documentary film director, People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. After graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1936

Malyshev V.I. (1910-1976), specialist in study of literature and archaeography

MALYSHEV Vladimir Ivanovich (1910 - 1976, Leningrad), specialist in study of literature and archaeography, Honoured Academic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1972), PhD in Philology (1968)

Maslov S. Y. (1939-1982), human rights activist

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Nabutov V. S.(1917-73), sports commentator

NABUTOV Viktor Sergeevich (1917-1973), sportsman, radio and television commentator, master of sports (1934). In 1947 he graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute however from 1936 he was already playing for the Dinamo football team as

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Panin-Kolomenkin N.A. (1871-1956), sportsman

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Petrov-Bytov Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960), film director

PETROV-BYTOV (real name Petrov) Pavel Petrovich (1895-1960, Leningrad), film director, script writer. He worked as unskilled worker and barge hauler. In 1915-21, he served in the army. He graduated from the Petrozavodsk theatre school (1921)

Pimenov R.I. (1931-1990), mathematician, human rights activist

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Rakov L.L. (1904-1970), Historian, Director of the Museum of Leningrad Defence

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Steblin-Kamensky M.I. (1903-1981), historian

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Struve V.V., (1889-1965), orientalist

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Timoshenko S.А. (1899-1958), film director

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Tur A. F., (1894-1974), paediatrician

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Venediktov A.V.(1887-1959), lawyer

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