Butovo firing range
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The Butovo Firing Range or Butovo Shooting Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953. Its use for mass execution has been documented; it was prepared as a site for mass burial. According to Arseny Roginsky, "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe the mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD began to set aside for mass burials on the eve of the Great Terror.
Mound covering one of the mass graves at Butovo.
A wall in a memorial garden bearing the names of about 20,000 victims.
Seraphim Chichagov before being sentenced to death and executed
Jukums Vācietis after his arrest by the NKVD in 1937
The Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression is an annual day when victims of political repression in the Soviet Union are remembered and mourned across the Russian Federation.
"Restoring the Names" (29 October 2016). FSB headquarters are in the background.
Solovki Stone in St. Petersburg. One of its inscriptions: "To inmates of the Gulag"
Memorial "To the Victims of Political Repression", Sviyazhsk, (Tatarstan).
Perm-36 museum, which closed in 2014.