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Butovo Firing Range

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Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Butovo Firing Range
Phone:
+7 495 549-22-24

Address:
Yubileynaya Ulitsa, 2, Butovo, Moskovskaya oblast', Russia, 142720

The Butovo Firing Range or Butovo Shooting Range, is a former private estate near the village of Drozhzhino in the Yuzhnoye Butovo District south of Moscow that was seized by the Soviets after the 1917 revolution and thereafter used by secret police as an agricultural colony, shooting range, and from 1938 to 1953, as a site for executions and mass graves of persons deemed enemies of the people. The exact number of victims executed remains unknown, as only fragmentary data has been declassified by NKVD's successor services. However, between 1937 and 1938, the height of Josef Stalin's Great Terror, 20,761 prisoners were transported to the site and executed, typically by gunshot to the back of the head. Notable victims included Béla Kun, Gustav Klutsis, Seraphim Chichagov, as well as over 1000 members of the Russian Orthodox clergy. The Russian Orthodox Church took over the ownership of the lot in 1995 and erected a large Russian Revival memorial church. The mass grave may be visited daily.
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