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Butovo firing range

The Butovo Shooting Site often mistakenly called Butovo Firing Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in , Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953.
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Photo: Velbes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Railway stop
  • Description: execution site
  • Also known as: “Butovo” and “Stantsiya Butovo”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Butovo and Ulitsa Skobelevskaya.

Railway stop
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is a railway stop.

Metro station
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is a station on the Butovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro system in , . Opened on 27 December 2003 along with four other stations, it is named after the street that it serves, dedicated to Russian-Turkish war hero Mikhail Skobelev. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Butovo firing range.

Metro station
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is a station on the Butovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro system in , Russia. It was opened on 27 December 2003 along with four other metro stations. is situated 2 km west of Butovo firing range.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yuzhnoye Butovo District and Bobrovo.

Suburb
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is the biggest residential district in of , . The district's history dates back to 1612, and it is named after a Don Cossack Butov.

Town
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is a town, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Butovo firing range.

Suburb
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is an administrative district of , and one of the 125 raions of , . The area of the district is 9.271 square kilometers. Population: 95,937. is situated 3½ km north of Butovo firing range.

Butovo firing range

Latitude
55.54134° or 55° 32′ 29″ north
Longitude
37.57061° or 37° 34′ 14″ east
Elevation
182 metres (597 feet)
Open location code
9G7VGHRC+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 258654374
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­stop
Geo­Names ID
570575
Wiki­data ID
Q1018007
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Butovo firing range” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բուտովոյի հրաձգարան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Butovo poliqonu”
  • Bashkir: “Бутово полигоны”
  • Belarusian: “Бутаўскі палігон”
  • Belarusian: “Бутаўскі расстрэльны палігон”
  • Chinese: “布托沃射擊場”
  • Czech: “Butovská střelnice”
  • Czech: “Butovský polygon”
  • Czech: “Střelnice Butovo”
  • Dutch: “Boetovskiy poligon”
  • Finnish: “Butovon ampumarata”
  • French: “Polygone de Boutovo”
  • German: “Butowo-Poligon”
  • German: “Butowo”
  • Greek: “πεδίο βολής Μπούτοβο”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה בוטובו”
  • Hungarian: “butovói kivégzőhely”
  • Hungarian: “Butovói kivégzőhely”
  • Indonesian: “Lapangan tembak Butovo”
  • Italian: “Poligono di Butovo”
  • Japanese: “ブトヴォ射撃場”
  • Japanese: “ブトヴォ記念碑群”
  • Latvian: “Butovas poligons”
  • Lithuanian: “Butovo poligonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bytovskio poligonas”
  • Persian: “میدان تیر بوتوو”
  • Polish: “Butowo”
  • Polish: “Poligon strzelecki NKWD w Butowie”
  • Romanian: “poligonul Butovo”
  • Russian: “Бутовский полигон”
  • Russian: “Бутовский расстрельный полигон”
  • Spanish: “Campo de tiro de Butovo”
  • Spanish: “Campo de tiro de Bútovo”
  • Swedish: “Butovos skjutbana”
  • Tatar: “Бутово полигоны”
  • Ukrainian: “Бутовський полігон”
  • Welsh: “Mynwent Butovo, Rwsia”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Butovo firing range”. Photo: Velbes, CC BY-SA 4.0.