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Kurapaty ( Belarusian: Курапаты, IPA: [kuraˈpatɨ]) is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, where a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 during the Great Purge by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. [1] The exact count of victims is uncertain, as NKVD archives are classified in Belarus. [2] .
Mar 27, 2008 · Auteur: Goujon Alexandra. Kurapaty is the name of a place in the outskirts of Minsk (capital of Belarus) where NKVD officers killed, between 1937 and 1941, several thousand of Belarusian and other civilians. The burials in Kurapaty were discovered in 1988 and made public.
Jun 19, 2018 · Wooden crosses are scattered among the fir trees in this verdant patch of land outside the Belarusian capital, Minsk. They commemorate up to a quarter of a million people who perished here, shot...
Dec 9, 2023 · Kurapaty – The bloody trail of the Soviet Union. Last checked: Dec 9th, 2023 | By: Anna Krebs. Kurapaty – forest, north, adjacent to Minsk. Since 1988, mass graves of humans have been found in this array. Humans were shot by the NKVD (The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in 1937-1941. The number of victims is not exactly clear ...
- Kurapaty, Minsk, 220000, Minsk District
Nov 18, 2020 · The paper investigates past and current research on the executions at Kurapaty, in the northern suburbs of Minsk, Belarus, in 1937–41, covering the period from the discovery of mass graves in the 1970s to the establishment of an official monument in late 2018. It deals with several issues: archaeological excavations of the site in the 1980s ...
- David R. Marples, Veranika Laputska
- 2020
Oct 27, 2021 · 29.10.2021 16:46. On October 29, Western diplomats came to Kurapaty, a place on the outskirts of Minsk, and laid flower tributes to the victims of Stalinist repressions. Employees of pro-Lukashenka TV stations Belarus 1, ONT, STV unexpectedly arrived at the scene and started to act in a rather off-hand way, aiming to thwart the memorial event ...
Oct 29, 2021 · Western Envoys In Minsk Commemorate Victims Of Soviet Great Terror. October 29, 2021 17:09 GMT. By RFE/RL's Belarus Service. The diplomats held their ceremony in Kurapaty, a wooded area on the...