The Peredelkino Cemetery is one of Russia's most famous literary cemeteries. It is situated in south-west Moscow on the high bank of the Setun River.

The cemetery dates back to at least the 17th century, when it was a churchyard belonging to the village of Lukino. The necropolis's modern fame dates back to 1934: that was when a summer cottage settlement for creative intellectuals — Peredelkino — was founded nearby. Many writers and cultural figures who lived here wished to be buried nearby. From the 1960s onwards, the cemetery began to take shape as a ‘literary necropolis'.

In the early 2000s, the Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built next to the cemetery — a white-stone chapel in the Old Russian style.

A memorial has been erected on the site of a mass grave for soldiers of the Great Patriotic War; there is also a section containing the graves of early Bolsheviks and the graves of Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Among those who found their final resting place at Peredelkino Cemetery are:

Writers and poets:

Boris Pasternak (Nobel Laureate, 1958);

Korney Chukovsky;

Robert Rozhdestvensky;

Yevgeny Yevtushenko;

Arseny Tarkovsky (father of the world-famous director Andrei Tarkovsky);

Margarita Aliger;

Lydia Chukovskaya and others.

Scientists and public figures:

Dmitry Blagoy (literary scholar and Pushkin specialist);

Sergey Navashin (academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences);

Yuri Shchekochikhin (journalist, politician) and others.

Artists:

Vadim Sidur (sculptor);

Kirill Sokolov (painter);

Iosif Raevsky (People's Artist of the USSR) and others.

Sporting figures:

Yefim Geller (one of the leading grandmasters of the 1940s–1960s);

Marita Katushova (Olympic volleyball medallist) and others.

Military figures and Heroes of the Soviet Union: N. P. Babanakov, A. P. Kositsyn, A. P. Martynov and others.

A cenotaph to the film director Andrei Tarkovsky has also been erected in the cemetery.