The ceremony was held in the Central house of writers.

Vladimir Voinovich

In the great hall of the Central house of writers in Moscow ended with a farewell to the famous writer Vladimir Voinovich.

Say goodbye to writer came writer and journalist Viktor Shenderovich,
Ulitskaya writer, poet and Commissioner for the rights of the child in
Moscow Evgeny Bunimovich, journalists Mikhail Zygar, Stanislav Kucher,
Nikolai Rudensky, former Ministers of Economics of Russia Andrey Nechaev and Jacob
Urinson, philosopher and sociologist Igor Chubais, literary critic and historian
Marietta Chudakova, sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, and film and theater actor
Veniamin Smekhov.

The funeral of the writer will be held on Troekurov cemetery, reports the Agency “Moscow”.

Voinovich passed away at the age of 85 years on Saturday night, July 28. According to preliminary data, he died of a heart attack.