Sandarmokh is a forest massif 12 km from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. Their number is unknown, but is estimated to be in the thousand
The monumental slab at the entrance to the Sandarmokh burial grounds reads: "People! do not kill one another".
Memorial to Ukrainians shot at Sandarmokh
Finnish victims' memorial at Sandarmokh
Commemorative photos fixed to trees around the pits at Sandarmokh.
Andriy Dmytrovych Babiuk, known by the pen name Myroslav Irchan, was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer, playwright and publicist. From 1923 to 1929 Irchan lived and worked in Winnipeg, Canada. Returning t
Irchan in Winnipeg
Myroslav Irchan (seated), as the son, in his play A Family of Brushmakers