Deaths in the 1940s
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Wasilij Orłow
1916–1945 (age 29)
Novodevichy Cemetery
Wasilij Orłow was a Russian military officer who died during World War II.
Nikołaj Osokin
1877–1949 (age 72)
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Dmitry Ulyanov
1874–1943 (age 69)
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Dmitry Ulyanov was a Russian physician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ivan Moskvin
1874–1946 (age 72)
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Nikolay Papaleksi
1880–1947 (age 67)
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Nikolay Papaleksi was a prominent Russian astronomer and celestial researcher.
Nikolay Gamaleya
1859–1949 (age 90)
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Panteleimon Golosov
1882–1945 (age 63)
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Panteleimon Golosov was an influential Russian architect of the early twentieth century.
Boris Rybkin
1899–1947 (age 48)
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Alexey Novikov-Priboy
1877–1944 (age 67)
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Alexey Novikov-Priboy was a prominent Russian writer and novelist.
Nikolai Semashko
1874–1949 (age 75)
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Viktor Golubev
1916–1945 (age 29)
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Viktor Golubev was a Soviet aircraft pilot during World War II.
Leonid Khrushchev
1917–1943 (age 26)
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Viktor Tsyganov
1896–1944 (age 48)
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Viktor Tsyganov was a Soviet military officer and serviceman.
Mstislav Tsyavlovsky
1883–1947 (age 64)
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Nikolai Chemberdzhi
1903–1948 (age 45)
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Nikolai Chemberdzhi was a Russian composer of classical music.
Чичкин, Александр Васильевич
1862–1949 (age 87)
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Nikolai Petrovich Chulkov
1870–1940 (age 70)
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Nikolai Petrovich Chulkov was a prominent Russian historian and scholar.
Vladimir Shakhurin
1928–1943 (age 15)
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Leonid Emilievich Schwartz
1905–1945 (age 40)
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Leonid Emilievich Schwartz was a Soviet engineer and technical innovator.
Klavdy Ippolitovich Shenfer
1885–1946 (age 61)
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Evgeny Shervinsky
1878–1942 (age 64)
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Evgeny Shervinsky was a Russian architect and designer.
Andrey Shestakov
1877–1941 (age 64)
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Evgenija Samoylovna Sjlichter
1869–1943 (age 74)
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Evgenija Samoylovna Sjlichter was a Russian revolutionary and activist.
Mikhail Erdenko
1885–1940 (age 55)
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Заяц, Николай Филиппович
1885–1949 (age 64)
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Russian military personnel who served in the early twentieth century.
Кульчак, Михаил Михайлович
1896–1948 (age 52)
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Georgiy (Sadkovsky) was a Russian religious figure born in Moscow in 1896 who died in 1948 and was buried at Pskovo-Pech...
Aleksandr Nikolayev
1905–1949 (age 44)
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Soviet naval officer who served during the twentieth century.
Nikolay Popov
1865–1945 (age 80)
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Aleksandr Buyko
1885–1941 (age 56)
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Russian politician active in the early twentieth century.
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
1881–1947 (age 66)
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Vladimir Podgorny
1887–1944 (age 57)
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Russian actor who performed during the early twentieth century.
Ksenia Dorliak
1882–1945 (age 63)
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Lazar Isaakovitsj Kordoener
1901–1946 (age 45)
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Russian engineer who contributed to industrial and technical development.
Aleksey Vasyutinsky
1877–1947 (age 70)
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Nikolai Ivanovich Strunnikov
1871–1945 (age 74)
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Russian painter who contributed to the visual arts during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Nikolay Soshestvenskiy
1876–1941 (age 65)
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Aleksey Klimov
1878–1940 (age 62)
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Russian veterinarian who advanced veterinary medicine and practice.
Ivan Antoshin
1895–1944 (age 49)
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Semjon Anisimovič Afonin
1900–1944 (age 44)
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Russian military officer who served during the twentieth century.
Mark Veyner
1896–1943 (age 47)
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Лецкий, Георгий Иванович
1888–1946 (age 58)
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Russian military leader who held significant command positions during the twentieth century.
Lev Dovator
1903–1941 (age 38)
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Nikolai Podvoisky
1880–1948 (age 68)
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Russian politician who played an important role in early twentieth-century political affairs.
Andrey Arkhangelsky
1879–1940 (age 61)
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Ilya Golosov
1883–1945 (age 62)
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Ilya Golosov was a pioneering Russian architect known for his modernist contributions to Moscow's architectural heritage...
Aleksandr Kosmodemyansky
1925–1945 (age 20)
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Vladimir Piast
1886–1940 (age 54)
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Vladimir Piast was a Russian writer whose literary works reflected the intellectual traditions of early twentieth-centur...
Nikolay Radlov
1889–1942 (age 53)
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Евгений Сергеевич Бывалов
1876–1943 (age 67)
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Евгений Сергеевич Бывалов was a Russian writer active in early twentieth-century literary circles...
Zinaida Savyolova
1862–1943 (age 81)
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