Danilov Cemetery, Federal cultural heritage cemetery in Donskoy District, Moscow, Russia

Danilov Cemetery is a burial ground in Moscow's Donskoy District with stone monuments, traditional crosses, and paved pathways shaded by mature trees. The grounds feature multiple sections with graves and memorials spanning different historical periods.

Founded in 1771 during a plague epidemic that killed up to 800 people a day, when a Senate decree banned burials inside Moscow. It was named after the nearby Danilovskaya Sloboda and became known as a merchant cemetery; the Tretyakov family grave is its best-known burial. A wooden church of 1772 was replaced in 1832–1838 by the Empire-style Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, funded by merchant Semyon Lepeshkin.

This cemetery holds graves of Russian writers, musicians, and political figures whose monuments reflect different periods of Moscow's cultural life. The inscriptions and memorials tell stories of people who shaped Russian arts and society.

Danilov Cemetery is at 4. Roshchinsky Proezd 10 in Moscow's Donskoy District, not at number 30. The grounds cover 35 hectares and are split into a central section and a Muslim section on the slope of the Andreevsky ravine, so plan which part you want to see first. The main gate is marked with a red "10".

Two concrete pillboxes from the 1941 anti-aircraft defence of Moscow still stand on the grounds, when a battery was stationed among the graves. The memorial on the mass grave of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War was made in 1965 by sculptor Andrey Tumanov.