Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow

Name: Kommunarka shooting ground
Address: Moscow, Russia

#470 among attractions in Moscow

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The Kommunarka firing range, former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out there by the NKVD during the Great Terror and until the war started; alternatively, bodies of those shot elsewhere might have been brought there for later interment. As the late Arseny Roginsky explained: "firing range" was a popular euphemism adopted to describe mysterious and closely-guarded plots of land that the NKVD began to set aside for mass burials on the eve of the Great Terror. ()

Local name: Коммунарка Coordinates: 55°34'45"N, 37°27'21"E

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Kommunarka shooting ground – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Moscow Paleontological Museum, Butovo firing range, Transvaal Park, Bitsa Park.

3.8 miNE
Museum, Natural history museum
Moscow Paleontological Museum, Moscow
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6.3 miSE
Church built on a former firing range
Butovo firing range
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3.2 miNE
Park
Transvaal Park, Moscow
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5 miNE
Park
Bitsa Park, Moscow
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5.4 miE
Park
Universal Studios Moscow, Moscow
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Observatories and planetariums
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4.5 miNE
Memorial
Uzkoye, Moscow
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2.5 miE
Neighbourhood
Yasenevo District, Moscow
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2.2 miN
Cemetery
Khovanskoye Cemetery, Moscow
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5.5 miN
Universities and schools
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow
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Universities and schools
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Moscow
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