Sandarmokh

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Sandarmokh is a forested area in Karelia, Russia, that served as a major mass execution and burial site during Stalinist political repressions.

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Sandarmokh canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf forest area
mass execution site
memorial complex
administeredBy NKVD of the Karelian ASSR
linked to: NKVD
associatedWith human rights organization Memorial
commemoratedOn 5 August
commemorates victims of Stalinist terror
victims of the Great Terror of 1937–1938
controversy attempts to reinterpret victims as prisoners of war
country Russia
discoveredBy Memorial Society researchers
Yury Dmitriev NERFINISHED
discoveryDate 1997
hasAnnualEvent Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions
hasFeature commemorative crosses
mass graves
memorial plaques
paths through forest
hasInscriptionLanguage Finnish
German
Hebrew
Polish
Russian
Ukrainian
other languages
hasVictimGroup Finnish citizens
Karelian Finns
linked to: Karelians

Soviet political prisoners
Ukrainian intellectuals
clergy
engineers and professionals
ethnic minorities
locatedIn Medvezhyegorsky District
Republic of Karelia
locatedNear Medvezhyegorsk
White Sea–Baltic Canal
memorialOpened 1997
numberOfBurialsEstimate around 9,000
over 7,000
partOf northwestern Russia
linked to: Northwest Russia
perpetrator NKVD
recognizedAs site of mass political repression
subjectOf historical research
international commemoration
timePeriod 1937–1938
usedDuring Great Terror
Stalinist political repressions
usedFor mass burials
mass executions

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Pavel Florensky placeOfDeath Sandarmokh