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Grave markers for some of the victims at Kommunarka. Photos of some of the victims. The Kommunarka firing range ( Russian: Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка» ), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941.
Kommunarka is an urban-type settlement (posyolok) in Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. The Kommunarka (Sokolnicheskaya line) station opened in 2019. History. A mass burial site of the late 1930s, known as the Kommunarka shooting ground or "firing range". is also
Kommunarka Factory is one of the largest confectionaries in the Republic of Belarus. The company’s annual output reaches 25,000 tonnes of confectionary goods. The company’s products portfolio includes over 300 descriptions of sweets, chocolate, caramel, candy drops, toffee and waffles.
The Kommunarka memorial to victims of Stalin's Great Terror was erected near Moscow in 2018. Photo: Nikita Tatarsky (RFE/RL) On October 1, 1937, as Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's brutal purge...
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....
Today’s podcast guest recently journeyed to Kommunarka to pay homage to one of these victims, his great-grandfather. Dovid Margolin is senior editor at Chabad.org and the author of a new essay, “ The Jews in Defiance of History ,” in the September 2023 issue of Commentary that looks at Stalin’s Great Terror through his own family’s ...
Kommunarka was one of three Moscow killing fields used by Stalin’s secret police in the 1930s. The other two include the Donskoye cemetery and Butovo about 5 kilometers south of the Moscow Ring...
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. On 8 August 1937, the first 91 victims were transported to Butovo from Moscow prisons.
Kommunarka (Russian: Коммунарка) is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. It was opened on 20 June 2019, along with Filatov Lug, Prokshino, and Olkhovaya. and became the southwestern terminus of the line, after Olkhovaya station. Kommunarka became the 232nd station of the Moscow Metro.
On October, 27, 2018 the Wall of Remembrance was opened at the former NKVD special object Kommunarka in Moscow. 6,609 people were executed and buried on the territory of Kommunarka between September 2, 1937 and November 24, 1941.