Stalin’s Soviet Union · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Sandarmokh mass graves (1937–38)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Sandarmokh”
1937–1938 — In a forest clearing near Medvezhegorsk in Karelia, the NKVD shot more than 6,000 people, among them 1,111 prisoners brought from Solovki in late 1937. Researchers from Memorial found the graves in 1997.
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- Great Terror (Great Purge) (chapter 6 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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