Lest we forget...
Dmitrii Kiselev | Russian Federation
Photographer: Dmitrii Kiselev
Exhibit Title: Lest we forget...
Location: Russian Federation
The Butovo Firing Range is the historical name of a site known as one of the sites of mass executions and burials of victims of Stalin's repressions, where, according to the results of research into archival and investigative documents, more than twenty thousand people were shot. The list of 20,761 people shot in August 1937-October 1938 (the time of most of the executions) is known by name. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II called the Butovo Firing Range "the Russian Golgotha". Among those buried at the range are about a thousand members of the clergy. Most of those executed at the Butovo Firing Range were sentenced to death by extrajudicial bodies - the troika of the USSR NKVD Directorate for the Moscow Region, as well as a special commission of the USSR NKVD and the USSR Prosecutor.
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