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Communarka shooting ground

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.

Victims

  • Anandyn Amar
  • Darizavyn Losol
  • Jānis K. Bērziņš
  • Nikolai Bukharin
  • Mikhail Svetšnikov
  • References

    Communarka shooting ground Wikipedia