Volkovo cemetery - the burial place of writers, scientists, government and public figures. On "Literatorskie jetty" rest:

• writers Ivan Turgenev, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolay Leskov, Alexander Kuprin, Vsevolod Garshin, Leonid Andreyev, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Lozinsky, Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky, Olga Bergholz;
• scientists: Dmitri Mendeleev, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Maclay, Vladimir Bekhterev, Alexander Popov, Julius Shokalsky Nicholas Katchalov, Abram Ioffe, Ignatius Krachkovskii;
• artists: Nikolai Akimov, Isaac Brodsky, Alexander Bryantsev, Leonty Benoit, Agrippina Vaganova, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, the Arch Rylov, Nikolai Simonov, etc.
• the graves of many public figures, populist revolutionaries, social democrats: Nikolai Mikhailovsky, Herman Lopatin, Vera Zasulich, Georgy Plekhanov,
• here also - the necropolis of the Ulyanov family.

Address : metro Ligovsky Prospekt, Rasstannaya Str. thirty; tel .: +7 (812) 166-2383

Opening hours from November to March - 11: 00-17: 00, in the summer - 11: 00-19: 00; output - Thu