Factbox-Honour or disgrace - how Russia has buried its past leaders

A woman walks next to a sculpture of Mikhail Gorbachev in memory of the final leader of the Soviet Union, at the "Fathers of Unity" memorial in Berlin, Germany August 31, 2022. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, will be buried on Saturday in Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery but there is no official day of mourning and it will not be a state funeral.

Here are some details of the funerals and burials of previous Soviet and Russian leaders in the past 100 years.