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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 south-west of the centre of Moscow. It is now an Orthodox cemetery. According to Federal Security Service 10,000 people were killed and buried there.

Coordinates: 55°34′45″N 37°27′21″E / 55.5792°N 37.4558°E / 55.5792; 37.4558


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