Communarka shooting ground

The gate

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

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
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Coordinates: 55°34′45″N 37°27′21″E / 55.5792°N 37.4558°E / 55.5792; 37.4558

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