Kemerovo is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basi
View of Kemerovo
Building of the City Administration and the City Council of People's Deputies (Sovetsky Prospect, 54)
The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Kemerovo
…Shcheglovsk was renamed Kemerovo and became the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast in 1943. In 1997, a memorial stone to those executed during the Great Terror was set up on the wasteland of the closed Yagunovskaya mine by the Memory (Pamyat) history club of School No 50. In 2018, 60 people were killed by a…
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev