To address the issue, the NKVD allocated two new special facilities – Butovo and Kommunarka shooting ground – to serve as a combination of execution site and mass grave. [10] On 8 August 1937, the first 91 victims were transported to Butovo from Moscow prisons. [4]
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Kommunarka shooting ground. Coordinates: 55°34′45″N 37°27′21″E. Entrance gate into the Kommunarka shooting ground in 2012. Grave markers for some of the victims at Kommunarka. Photos of some of the victims.
A mass burial site of the late 1930s, known as the Kommunarka shooting ground or "firing range". is also located in the area. Most of the defendants at the third and last Moscow Show Trial (March 1938) are buried there.
The Kommunarka firing range , former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out there by the NKVD during the Great Terror and until the war started; alternatively, bodies of those shot elsewhere might have been brought there for later interment.[1]
To address the issue, the NKVD allocated two new special facilities – Butovo and Kommunarka shooting ground – to serve as a combination of execution site and mass grave. [10] On 8 August 1937, the first 91 victims were transported to Butovo from Moscow prisons. [4]
On May 20, the GULAG History Museum in Moscow opened an informational center at “Kommunarka,” an infamous mass execution site of the Stalinist Great Terror outside of Russia’s capital city....
He was buried at an NKVD shooting ground on Moscow's southern outskirts known as Kommunarka -- the final resting place of thousands executed by the Soviet secret police between 1937 and 1941.
Facts and practical information. Language: English Polski. Kommunarka shooting ground Identifying the victims Opening and controversy An elite burial ground. The Kommunarka firing range, former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941.
The graves were found over the course of three years at the Kommunarka shooting ground, a large wooded area southwest of Moscow that contains the bodies of 6,609 people shot by the NKVD secret...
Kommunarka was one of three ”special zones,” along with the Donskoe Cemetery and Butovo, used by the NKVD (People’s Comissariat for Internal Affairs) for mass shootings and burials in the second half of 1937. Kommunarka was located on the territory of the summer residence of the former Commissar for Internal Affairs, Genrikh Yagoda.
Poligon Kommunarka. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. This is a category about a cultural heritage object in Russia, number: 5000002033. This template and pages using it are maintained by the Russian WLM team.
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