Common grave of the professors of the Leningrad Academy of Arts who died of starvation in 1942 during the Leningrad Blockade at Smolenskoye Blockade Cemetery on Dekabristov Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Famous Russian artist Ivan Bilibin is buried here together with architects Yakov Gevirts and Oskar Munts, painters Alexei Karev and Pavel Naumov, mosaic master Vladimir Frolov, graphic artist Pavel Shillingovsky and art historian Konstantin Fursov.

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