Komarovsky Village Cemetery

The Komarovsky Village Cemetery in Zelenogorsk covers an area of 2.4 hectares. Philologists and literary scholars V. P. Adrianova-Peretz, M. P. Alekseev, V. M. Zhirmunsky, D. S. Likhachev, B. S. Meilakh, and V. F. Shishmarev are buried here, as well as directors Ilya Averbakh, Naum Birman, Arkady Katsman, Iosif Kheifits, and Alexander Kapitsa. The cemetery is the burial place of musician Sergei Anatolyevich Kurekhin, artist Nathan Altman, as well as physicists, chemists, geologists, and oncologists. There are 20 known graves of people connected with the pre-revolutionary past of Kellomäki, who owned dachas here before 1917. At Akhmatova's grave, as she bequeathed, a wooden cross stood at first, and in 1969 a bas-relief and a cross were installed according to the design of sculptor A. M. Ignatiev and architect V. P. Smirnov.