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Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia

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In the absence of Yury Dmitriev, then held at Detention Centre No 1, the annual Day of Remembrance took a different form in 2017: an official part, with dancing and singing, and an "unofficial" protest during which Dmitriev's daughter Katerina and others read aloud the names of the hundreds of
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In an interview with Yury Dmitriev recorded in May 2015 he said that through work in the archives the identity of all those shot at Krasny Bor had been established with a high level of certainty. For comparison, roughly half of those shot at
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The burial site covers an area of approximately 350 by 150 metres. According to execution reports in the former KGB archives for Karelia, 1,193 people were shot and buried there: 580
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and 45 persons of other nationalities. The shootings took place from 9 August to 15 September 1937 and from 26 September to 2 October 1938. The Finnish victims were targeted by the
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Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag: a select directory of burial grounds and commemorative sites
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The Karelian instance of this common Russian toponym has become widely known, thanks to the efforts of
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Irina Galkova, "My path to Golgotha: An interview with Yury Dmitriev", Memorial website, 1 May 2017
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Sergei Markelov, "The Day of Remembrance in Petrozavodsk", 7x7-Horizontal Russia, 31 October 2017
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Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in the Republic of Karelia
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was identified at Krasny Bor and then thoroughly investigated by the historian
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The Karelian Lists of Remembrance: Murdered Karelia, part 2, The Great Terror
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Yury Dmitriev, "We must be able to find something", Dmitriev Affair website
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Volume about Krasny Bor killing field, edited by Dmitriev, 2017 reprint
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was opened, a companion site to the large and growing complex at
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Forest and memorial cemetery in Republic of Karelia, Russia
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On 12 October 2017 three Moscow writers –
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at the memorial for the execution location in 2007.
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Russian
lit.
Petrozavodsk
Karelia
Yury A. Dmitriev
NKVD
Great Purges
Yury A. Dmitriev
Memorial
Finns
Karelians
Russians
Finnish Operation of the NKVD
Sandarmokh

Yury A. Dmitriev
Sandarmokh
Ludmila Ulitskaya
Yury A. Dmitriev
Ivan Chukhin
ru
«Поминальные списки Карелии, 1937–1938: Уничтоженная Карелия, часть 2. Большой террор»
Butovo firing range
Kommunarka
Mass graves in the Soviet Union
Sandarmokh
"The Krasny Bor Memorial Cemetery", Virtual Museum of the Gulag
Yury Dmitriev, "We must be able to find something", Dmitriev Affair website
"Krasny Bor"

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