Back Коммунарка (атыу полигоны) Bashkir Расстрэльны палігон «Камунарка» Byelorussian Kommunarka Czech Kommunarka (Hinrichtungsstätte) German Campo de fusilamiento de Communarka Spanish Kommunarka Estonian Kommunarka Finnish Kommounarka French גיא ההריגה בקומונרקה HE Lapangan tembak Kommunarka ID
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.[1] As Russian historian 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.[2]
- ^ "The Kommunarka burial site in Moscow", Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag Archived 21 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine. en.mapofmemory.org
- ^ Arseny Roginsky, "Epilogue", Those shot at Kommunarka, Memorial: Moscow, 2000 Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian).