Mass graves from Soviet mass executions
Mass graves in the Soviet Union were used for the burial of mass numbers of citizens and foreigners executed by the government of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. These mass killings were carried out by the security organisations, such as the NKVD, and reached their peak in the Great Purge of 1937–38.Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, many of the killing and burial sites were uncovered, one as recently as 2010.
- Bykivnia Graves – containing an estimated 30,000
- Kurapaty – At least 50,000 with considerably higher estimates in the Soviet press
- Toksovo, near Saint Petersburg – 30,000 killed
- Butovo – over 20,000 confirmed killed
- Yekaterinburg – 18,000 executed and buried
- Kommunarka – approximately 10,000 killed
- Sandarmokh – over 9,000 bodies discovered
- Kolpashevo – over 1,000 bodies discovered in 1979, and then disposed of on instruction of the local party chief.
- In the areas near Kiev alone, there are mass graves in Uman, Bila Tserkva, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr.
- Katyn massacre
- Vinnytsia massacre – 9,432 corpses exhumed
- In July 2010, a mass grave was discovered at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, which contained the corpses of 80 military officers who were executed during the Bolshevik Red Terror of 1918–21.
- Dem'ianiv Laz
- Augustów roundup
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