Communarka shooting ground

The gate

The Communarka or Kommunarka (Russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка») was the site of NKVD mass shootings from 1937 to 1941 in the Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug south-west of the centre of Moscow. It is now an Orthodox cemetery. According to the Federal Security Service, 10,000 people were killed and buried there.[1]

Notable victims

See also

References

  1. ↑ Спецобъект "Монастырь" izvestia.ru.
  2. ↑ МОСКВАД ХЭЛМЭГДЭГСДИЙН ХӨШӨӨНД ХҮНДЭТГЭЛ ҮЗҮҮЛЭВ
  3. ↑ Расстрельные списки Коммунарки. \\ Общество «Мемориал».
  4. ↑ РЕПРЕССИИ ЧЛЕНОВ АКАДЕМИИ НАУК

Coordinates: 55°34′45″N 37°27′21″E / 55.57917°N 37.45583°E / 55.57917; 37.45583

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