Left from the gate, to the right of the central path is Lyubov Orlova again with a bronze leaf and rose; one row back on the left, partisan Zoya Kos­modemyanskaya runs bare-breasted and with head flung back to her heroic and untimely death at the hands of the Nazis.



When you have finished exploring, cross the road outside the gates and walk directly away from the cemetery along the side of block 38 until another lane on the other side of Ulitsa Usacheva takes you to Sportivnaya Metro Station.

By Phoebe Taplin

Moscow News