Kommunarka shooting ground
Cemeteries in RussiaExecution sitesHistory of the Soviet UnionMass gravesMemorials to victims of communism ... and 3 more
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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. 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. As the late Arseny Roginsky explained: "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD began to set aside for mass burials on the eve of the Great Terror.
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Калужское шоссе (дублёр), поселение Сосенское
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Церковь Новомучеников и Исповедников Российских
Калужское шоссе (дублёр)
108814 поселение Сосенское
Moscow, Russia
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