Moscow Armenian Cemetery

The Armenian Cemetery of Moscow (Armenian: Մոսկվայի Հայկական Գերեզմանատուն, Russian: Армя́нское Вага́ньковское кла́дбище, Armyanskoe Vagan'kovskoe Kladbishche) is an Armenian historical cemetery in Moscow, Russia It is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district, not far from Vagankovo Cemetery. The cemetery was established in 1804 by the initiative of Minas Lazarev, the leader Moscow’s Armenian community, who also initiated the construction of the Surb Harutyun Armenian church (1808–1815). The Lazarev family crypt is located under the church. The cemetery and the church are under state protection. Among the state-protected monuments are the obelisk on A.A. Loris-Melikov's tomb (1844), Ananov's tombs (constructed by medieval Armenian canons) , khachkar on D.S. Melik-Beglyarov's tomb (1913), and the modernist gravestone for Nikolai Tarasov sculpted by Nikolai Andreev. The Armenian Cemetery is also the resting place for the remains of people who were not of Armenian descent.

Old memory house

Burials at Armenian Cemetery of Moscow

Tigran Petrosian's Grave

Andrei Platonov's grave at Armenian Cemetery

Sergey Aslamazian (1897–1978), cellist, composer
Hamo Beknazarian (1891–1965), film director
Mikhail Chailakhyan (1901–1991), botanist
Zara Dolukhanova (1918–2007), opera singer
Alexey Dushkin (1904–1977), architect
Tigran Khachaturov, economist, academician
Ivan Lazarev (1820–1879), lieutenant general
Pavel Lisitsian (1911–2004), opera singer
Ashot Manucharov, leader of Karabakh movement
Koryun Nahapetyan (1926–1999), painter-nonconformist and public activist
Stepanos Nazarian (1812–1879), publisher, historian of literature and orientalist
Kerope Patkanov (1833–1889), orientalist, researcher, professor
Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984), World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969
Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), Russian writer
Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930–2008), theatrical and cinema actress
Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982), Russian writer
Smbat Shahaziz (1840–1908), Armenian poet, educator, writer
Levon Atovmyan (1901–1973), composer, teacher, and administrator
Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996), composer
Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996), composer

Books

(in Russian) Памятники архитектуры Москвы. Окрестности старой Москвы (северо-западная и северная часть территории). М., "Искусство XXI век", 2004, ISBN 5-98051-011-7, с. 71

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