Cemeteries to the Victims of Repression

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CEMETERIES FOR THE VICTIMS OF REPRESSION, places of mass burial of the victims of political repressions in Petrograd - Leningrad. In 1918-53, Petrograd -Leningrad VChKa (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, more commonly known as the Cheka), OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate) and NKVD (People's Commissariat for State Security) executed 58,098 people by shooting. The places of shooting and burial were: in 1918-21, a tract of Kovalevsky forest in the region of the former Kovalevo Railway Station, four kilometres to the north-east from the Rzhevka Railway Station (about 5,000 people were buried, including the participants of the Kronstadt Insurrection of 1921 and the condemned of Petrograd militant organization; burial places were discovered in 2001 by a search group of the Memorial Scientific-Research Centre under the guidance of V.V. Ioffe; on 25 August 2001 the memorial "To the victims of the Red Terror" was mounted). In the 1930s, the main execution and burial place was a tract of land at Koirangakangas, 14 kilometres to the south-west from Toksovo Railway Station (over 30,000 people were interred; burial places were discovered in 2002 by a Memorial Society search group). To bury those who died or were killed in Leningrad prisons the Bogoslovskoe, Preobrazhenskoe and Bolsheokhtenskoe Cemeteries were used (burial places have not been discovered), on the Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery in 2001 the Memorial society in cooperation with the cemetery administration placed the monument To Victims of Political Repressions). From September 1937 those who died or were killed in Leningrad prisons were buried on Levashovskaya Wasteland (burial places were found in 1989 by a Memorial society search group, under the guidance of V. T. Muravsky).

References: Ленинградский мартиролог, 1937-1938: Кн. памяти жертв полит. репрессий / Отв. ред. А. Я. Разумов. СПб., 1995-2002. Т. 1-5; Иофе В. В. Первая кровь (Петроград, 1918-1921) // Иофе В. В. Новые этюды об оптимизме: Сб. ст. и выступлений. СПб., 1998; "Нам остается только имя...": Памятники жертвам полит. репрессий Петрограда - Ленинграда: [Буклет]. СПб., 1999.

I. A. Flige. Iofe Veniamin Viktorovich
Muravsky Valentin Tikhonovich
Ленинградский мартиролог, 1937-1938: Кн. памяти жертв полит. репрессий / Отв. ред. А. Я. Разумов. СПб., 1995-2002
Иофе В. В. Первая кровь (Петроград, 1918-1921) // Иофе В. В. Новые этюды об оптимизме: Сб. ст. и выступлений. СПб., 1998
"Нам остается только имя...": Памятники жертвам полит. репрессий Петрограда - Ленинграда: [Буклет]. СПб., 1999 Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
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Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
Memorial Cemetery to the Victims of 9th January
2001