Mikhail Gorbachev was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery
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In Moscow, the farewell ceremony for the first President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of 91, ended. The ceremony was attended by his relatives and associates, as well as politicians, foreign diplomats and officials, and other citizens. The last head of the USSR was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery
The memorial service was attended by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who laid flowers at the coffin of the last Soviet leader and expressed his condolences. Also at the ceremony were the ambassadors of the United States John Sullivan, Japan Toyohisa Kozuki, Germany Geza Andreas von Geyr and other states.
Among the officials and politicians who attended the memorial service were: head of Roskosmos Yuri Borisov, head of Rossotrudnichestvo Yevgeny Primakov, State Duma deputy Yevgeny Popov, former human rights commissioner in Russia Vladimir Lukin, politician Grigory Yavlinsky, chairman of the Yabloko party Nikolai Rybakov, senator of the Federation Council and widow of Anatoly Sobchak Lyudmila Narusova, politician and daughter of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Tatyana Yumasheva with her husband, former head of the Russian presidential administration Valentin Yumashev.
A number of cultural figures also visited the farewell: People’s Artist of the USSR Alla Pugacheva, musician Stas Namin, composer Viktor Drobysh, theater and film actor Artur Smolyaninov. Among the journalists who came to say goodbye to Mikhail Gorbachev were Svetlana Sorokina, Dmitry Muratov and Vladimir Pozner.
A funeral service for Mikhail Gorbachev was held in the Hall of Columns in Moscow in an open format. It lasted about four hours – from 10:00 to 14:00 Moscow time. The Hall of Columns was cordoned off for the duration of the event; those who wished could get into it from Bolshaya Dmitrovka from Kuznetsky Most.
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