Solovki prison camp
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The Solovki special camp, was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's n
Solovetsky Monastery in 2013
Memorial to the victims of political repression in the USSR, on Lubyanka Square, Moscow, next to FSB headquarters, made of a boulder from the Solovetsky Islands
Memorial to the victims of political repression in the USSR, in St. Petersburg, made of a boulder from the Solovetsky Islands
Maxim Gorky visiting Solovki. To his right stands leading NKVD officer Gleb Boky
Sandarmokh
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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.