Sandarmokh
Sandarmokh is a forest massif 12 km from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. Their number is unknown, but is estimated to be in the thousands.Photo: Visem, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pindushi and Povenets.
Pindushi
Village
Povenets
Village
Photo: Shel1983, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Povenets is an urban locality in Medvezhyegorsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shore of Lake Onega, 231 kilometers north of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,209. Povenets is situated 8 km southeast of Sandarmokh.
Sandarmokh
- Type: Locality
- Description: cemetery forest massif in Karelia, Russia
- Categories: memory space, cemetery, forest, historic site, and memorial
- Location: Karelia, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
62.88765° or 62° 53′ 16″ northLongitude
34.67894° or 34° 40′ 44″ eastOpen location code
9GJPVMQH+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3047477963OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q2664713
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Sandarmokh” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սանդարմոխ”
- Bashkir: “Сандармох”
- Belarusian: “Сандармох”
- Catalan: “Sandarmokh”
- Chinese: “桑达莫赫”
- Croatian: “Sandarmoh”
- Czech: “Sandarmoh”
- Esperanto: “Sandarmoĥ”
- Finnish: “Sandarmoh”
- French: “Sandarmokh”
- Georgian: “სანდარმოხი”
- German: “Sandarmoch”
- Hebrew: “סנדארמוך”
- Italian: “Sandarmoch”
- Japanese: “サンダルモフ”
- Korean: “산다르모흐”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandarmoch”
- Polish: “Sandarmoch”
- Portuguese: “Sandarmokh”
- Russian: “Сандармох”
- Russian: “Сандормох”
- Russian: “Урочище Сандормох”
- Spanish: “Sandarmoj”
- Tatar: “Сандармох”
- Ukrainian: “Сандармох”
- Ukrainian: “Сандормох”
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