Sandarmokh

Sandarmokh is a wooded area massif 12 kilometres from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia in which heaps of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were completed. Over 9,000 people of more than 58 nationalities were shot and buried there in 236 communal pits over a 14-month duration in 1937 and 1938. A thousand of the victims were from the Solovki special jail inside the White Sea. It have become lengthy concept that the barges wearing them have been intentionally sunk at the way to the mainland, drowning all of the prisoners on board. Today, Sandarmokh is a memorial to the crimes of Stalin and his regime and considering that 1998 has been the focal point of an international Day of Remembrance on 5 August every year.

After years of exertions at the ground in Karelia with the aid of the use of Yury A. Dmitriev, this documentary evidence pointed the manner to the identity on 1 July 1997 of the Solovki prisoners' final resting location and that of another 8,000 achieved humans. The location could finally take shipping of the neighborhood Karelian name "Sandarmokh" occasionally spelled "Sandormokh. The tale of that searching for and discovery has currently been informed by using Irina Flige, head of the Memorial Education and Information Centre in St Petersburg. In 2015 Dmitriev recounted how he, Flige and the overdue Veniamin Ioffe had determined the burial web website. According to documents placed within the FSB information in Arkhangelsk, there had been human beings of 58 nationalities among those shot at Sandarmokh.