Burials at the Novodevichy Cemetery
Notable burials: A–C
- Yevgeniy Abalakov, mountaineer and sculptor
- Alexei Abrikosov, physician and pathologist
- Andrei Abrikosov, actor
- Grigori Abrikosov, actor
- Sergey Afanasyev, first Soviet space industry minister
- Ivan Agayants, KGB officer and foreign spy
- Sergei Aksakov, writer
- Vsevolod Aksyonov, actor
- Karo Alabyan, architect
- Alexander Alexandrov, founder of the Alexandrov Ensemble
- Boris Alexandrov, leader of the Alexandrov Ensemble
- Abraham Alikhanov,, physicist
- Nadezhda Alliluyeva, wife of Joseph Stalin
- Daniil Andreev, writer
- Averky Aristov, politician and diplomat
- Coretti Arle-Titz, singer and actress
- Vladimir Arnold, mathematician
- Vasily Azhayev, writer
- Nikolai Basistiy, naval admiral
- Pavel Batov, army general
- Demyan Bedny, writer
- Andrei Bely, writer
- Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
- Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
- Mark Bernes, actor and singer
- Aleksandr Blagonravov, military engineer
- Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina, actress
- Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, writer
- Sergei Bondarchuk, actor and director
- Artyom Borovik, journalist and businessman
- Mikhail Botvinnik, chess champion
- Valeriy Brumel, athlete champion
- Valery Bryusov, writer
- Serafima Bryusova, first female neurosurgeon
- Mikhail Bulgakov, playwright and author
- Nikolai Bulganin, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union
- Nikolai Burdenko, neurosurgeon
- Rolan Bykov, actor
- Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer
- Anton Chekhov, writer
- Vladimir Chelomei, rocket engineer
- Pavel Cherenkov, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Ivan Chernyakhovsky, General of the Army
- Georgi Chicherin, statesman
- Inna Churikova, Actress
Notable burials: D–G
- Yakov Dashevsky, army general
- Kuzma Derevyanko, army general
- Alexander Deyneka, painter and sculptor
- Lev Dovator, army general
- Nikolai Dudorov, Soviet politician and civil servant
- Isaak Dunayevsky, composer and conductor
- Ilya Ehrenburg, writer
- G. El-Registan, poet
- Sergei Eisenstein, film director
- Ivan Fadeev, long-term finance minister
- Alexander Fadeyev, writer
- Klavdia Fomicheva,, WWII pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union
- Dmitri Furmanov, writer
- Ekaterina Furtseva, politician
- Shakir Geniatullin, army general
- Sergei Gerasimov, film director
- Reinhold Glière, composer
- Valentin Glushko, spacecraft and rockets designer
- Nikolai Gogol, writer
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Leader of the Soviet Union and former President of the Soviet Union
- Raisa Gorbacheva, former "First Lady" of the Soviet Union and wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
- Ivan Gren, vice-admiral
- Andrei Gromyko, politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
- Lyudmila Gurchenko, popular actress, singer and entertainer
Notable burials: H–K
- Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet
- Dmitri Hvorostovsky, opera singer
- Ilya Ilf, writer
- Sergey Ilyushin, aeroplanes designer
- Archie Johnstone, journalist
- Dmitri Kabalevsky, composer
- Lazar Kaganovich, last of the Old Bolsheviks
- Nikolay Kamov, helicopters designer
- Leonid Kantorovich, Nobel Prize–winning economist
- Lev Kassil, writer
- Valentin Kataev, writer
- Anatoly Kharlampiyev, founder of sambo
- Velimir Khlebnikov, poet
- Nikita Khrushchev, Leader of the Soviet Union
- Sergei Khrushchev, engineer and academic, son of Nikita Khrushchev
- Igor Kio, illusionist
- Vladimir Kokkinaki, distinguished Soviet test pilot
- Andrey Kolmogorov, eminent mathematician
- Boris Korolev, avant-garde sculptor
- Olga Knipper, actress
- Rustam Khan Khoyski, Minister of Social Security of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- Leonid Kogan, violin virtuoso
- Alexandra Kollontai, politician
- Pavel Korin, painter and art restorer
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union
- Pyotr Koshevoy, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Gleb Kotelnikov,the knapsack parachute inventor
- Ivan Kozhedub, air force general
- Ivan Kozlovsky, opera singer
- Ernst Krenkel, explorer and radio operator
- Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins
- Peter Kropotkin, Russia's foremost anarchist
- Lev Kuleshov, film theorist and director
- Vladimir Krinsky, artist and architect
Notable burials: L–O
- Lev Landau, Nobel laureate in Physics
- Alexander Lebed, army general and politician
- Sergei Lebedev, computer pioneer
- Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, poet and singer
- Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii, director of Glavlit
- Valery Legasov, Hero of the Russian Federation, chief of commission that investigated 1986 Chernobyl disaster
- Sergei Lemeshev, opera singer
- Yevgeny Leonov, actor
- Isaac Levitan, painter
- Yuri Levitan, radio announcer
- Maxim Litvinov, politician
- Matvey Manizer, Socialist realist sculptor
- Alexei Maresiev, flying ace
- Samuil Marshak, writer, translator and children's poet
- Ekaterina Maximova, prima ballerina
- Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet
- Victor Merzhanov, pianist
- Anastas Mikoyan, politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
- Vyacheslav Molotov, politician and former premier
- Kirill Moskalenko, former commander of Strategic Rocket Forces
- Vera Mukhina, sculptor
- Alexander Nadiradze, missile/weapon engineer and designer
- Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, theater director
- Grigory Nikulin, Bolshevik revolutionary and chekist
- Yuri Nikulin, clown and actor
- Alexander Novikov, Air Force Marshal
- Sergey Obraztsov, puppeteer
- Vladimir Obruchev, geologist, geographer and explorer
- Nikolay Ogarev, writer
- Nikolay Ogarkov, Marshal and Chief of the Soviet General Staff
- David Oistrakh, violin virtuoso
- Aleksandr Oparin, scientist
- Lyubov Orlova, actress
- Nikolai Ostrovsky, writer
- Arkady Ostrovsky, composer
Notable burials: P–R
- Ivan Panfilov, army general
- Anatoli Papanov, actor
- Valentin Parnakh, poet and jazz musician
- Vera Pashennaya, actress of theater and cinema
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko, female sniper
- Ivan Petrov, army general
- Ivan Petrovsky, mathematician
- Nikolai Podgorny, politician and head of state of the Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, Air Force marshal
- Boris Polevoy, writer
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, aircraft constructor
- Vitaly Popkov, pilot
- Pyotr Pospelov, high-ranked Communist Party functionary
- Sergei Prokofiev, composer
- Aleksandr Ptushko, film director
- Vyacheslav Ragozin, chessplayer
- Arkady Raikin, stand up comedian
- Irina Rakobolskaya, chief of staff all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Regiment in WWII; physicist
- Aleksandr Razumny, film director
- Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
- George de Roerich, tibetologist
- Mikhail Romm, film director
- Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- Elena Rozmirovich, politician
- Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist and composer
- Lidiya Ruslanova, folk singer
Notable burials: S
- Alexander Saburov, army general and politician
- Ivan Samylovsky, diplomat
- Otto Schmidt, scientist
- Alfred Schnittke, composer
- Alexander Scriabin, composer
- Ivan Sechenov, physiologist
- Nikolai Semashko, politician
- Yuri Senkevich, explorer
- Valentin Serov, writer and artist
- Boris Shcherbina, politician, oversaw recovery efforts after 1986 Chernobyl disaster and 1988 Spitak earthquake
- Alexey Shchusev, architect
- Vissarion Shebalin, composer
- Dmitri Shepilov, politician
- Dmitri Shostakovich, composer
- Vladimir Shukhov, civil engineer
- Vasily Shukshin, writer and actor
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky, actor
- Pyotr Sobennikov, general
- Leonid Sobinov, tenor and director of the Bolshoi Theatre
- Sergei Sokolov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, defense minister
- Vladimir Solovyov, philosopher
- Konstantin Stanislavski, theater director
- Alexei Starobinsky, theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- Pavel Sukhoi, aerospace engineer
- Leopold Sulerzhitsky, theater practitioner
- Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, poet
- Georgy Sviridov, composer
Notable burials: T–Z
- Viktor Talalikhin, heroic army lieutenant
- Sergei Taneyev, composer
- Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, poet and playwright
- Yevgeny Tarle, historian
- Vladimir Tatlin, painter and architect
- Vasily Tikhomirov, choreographer
- Nikolai Tikhonov, politician
- Gherman Titov, cosmonaut, second man in space
- Aleksey Tolstoy, writer
- Pavel Tretyakov, businessman and art collector
- Andrei Tupolev, aircraft designer
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky, writer
- Galina Ulanova, prima ballerina
- Vasili Ulrikh, military judge
- Mikhail Ulyanov, actor
- Yevgeny Vakhtangov, theater director
- Arkady Volsky, politician and businessman
- Sergey Vavilov, physicist
- Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist and a geochemist
- Alexander Vertinsky, singer
- Dziga Vertov, filmmaker
- Ivan Vinogradov, mathematician
- Galina Vishnevskaya, operatic soprano & wife of Mstislav Rostropovich
- Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, psychologist
- Boris Yefimov, political cartoonist
- Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, actor
- Yakov Yurovsky, chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II and his family
- Nikolay Zabolotsky, poet
- Nikolay Zelinskiy, chemist
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky, politician and lawyer
- Georgiy Zhzhonov, actor