Mass graves in Russia

place of mass executions during Stalinism near Moscow

Soviet concentration camp on the Solovetsky Islands that operated from 1923 to 1939. It became a symbol of the Gulag system

thumb|The monumental slab at the entrance to the Sandarmokh burial grounds reads: "People! do not kill one another". Sandarmokh (; ) is a forest massif from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where an unknown number, estimated in the thousands, of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. More than 58 nationalities were shot and buried there by the NKVD in 236 communal pits over a 14-month period in 1937 and 1938.

execution site

cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia

cemetery in Moscow, Russia

mass murder in Russia

graves of executed Soviet citizens and foreigners

forest and a memorial cemetery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

aspect of the Chechen Wars