mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. Mass graves are usually created after many people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly for sanitation concerns.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: grave containing multiple number of human corpses, usually buried anonymously
  • Also known as: “common grave”, “mass burial”, and “Mass grave”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pokrovsk.

Railway station
Photo: Sorovas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station, which is situated 180 metres north of mass grave.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pokrovsk and Leontovychi.

Town
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly known as Krasnoarmiisk and Grishino, is a city and the administrative center of in , . It is located 56 kilometres northwest of .

Village
Photo: Петро Халява, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly known as Pershe Travnia, is a rural settlement in Pokrovsk urban hromada, , , . According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the population of Lentovychi was 698 people. is situated 3½ km southwest of mass grave.

Village
Photo: Відділ культури Покровського району, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 5 km southeast of mass grave.

mass grave

Latitude
48.28331° or 48° 16′ 60″ north
Longitude
37.1796° or 37° 10′ 47″ east
Open location code
8GWV75MH+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3087932154
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­grave_yard
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q734271
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“mass grave” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Varri masiv”
  • Arabic: “مقابر جماعية”
  • Arabic: “مقبرة جماعية”
  • Armenian: “Եղբայրական գերեզման”
  • Azerbaijani: “kütləvi məzarlıq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kütləvi məzarlıq”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kütləvi qəbiristanlıq”
  • Basque: “hobi komun”
  • Basque: “Hobi komun”
  • Belarusian: “братэрская магіла”
  • Belarusian: “Братэрская магіла”
  • Belarusian: “брацкая магіла”
  • Belarusian: “Брацкая магіла”
  • Bosnian: “Masovna grobnica”
  • Bulgarian: “Масов гроб”
  • Catalan: “fossa comuna”
  • Catalan: “Fossa comuna”
  • Catalan: “Fossar”
  • Catalan: “Fosses comunes”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڕی بەکۆمەڵ”
  • Chinese: “万人冢”
  • Chinese: “亂葬崗”
  • Chinese: “萬人坑”
  • Chinese: “萬人塚”
  • Croatian: “masovna grobnica”
  • Croatian: “Masovna grobnica”
  • Czech: “Hromadné pohřebiště”
  • Czech: “Hromadný hrob”
  • Czech: “masový hrob”
  • Czech: “společný hrob”
  • Danish: “massegrav”
  • Danish: “Massegrav”
  • Dutch: “grafkuil”
  • Dutch: “massagraf”
  • Dutch: “Massagraf”
  • Dutch: “verzamelgraf”
  • Esperanto: “Amasa tombo”
  • Esperanto: “amastombo”
  • Esperanto: “Amastombo”
  • Estonian: “massihaud”
  • Finnish: “joukkohauta”
  • Finnish: “Joukkohauta”
  • French: “charnier”
  • French: “Charnier”
  • Galician: “fosa común”
  • Galician: “Fosa común”
  • German: “Kameradengrab”
  • German: “Massenbestattung”
  • German: “Massengrab”
  • Greek: “ομαδικός τάφος”
  • Greek: “Ομαδικός τάφος”
  • Hebrew: “קבורה המונית”
  • Hungarian: “tömegsír”
  • Inari Sami: “juávkkuhävdi”
  • Indonesian: “kuburan massal”
  • Indonesian: “Kuburan massal”
  • Irish: “olluaigh”
  • Italian: “fossa comune”
  • Italian: “Fossa comune”
  • Japanese: “戦争墓地”
  • Japanese: “集団墓地”
  • Korean: “공동 묘지”
  • Korean: “공동묘지”
  • Latvian: “Brāļu kapi”
  • Latvian: “Masu kapi”
  • Macedonian: “заедничка гробница”
  • Macedonian: “збирна гробница”
  • Macedonian: “масовен гроб”
  • Macedonian: “масовна гробница”
  • Macedonian: “Масовна гробница”
  • Malayalam: “കൂട്ട ശവക്കുഴി”
  • Northern Sami: “joavkohávdi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “massegrav”
  • Norwegian: “Massegrav”
  • Persian: “گور جمعی”
  • Persian: “گور دسته جمعی”
  • Persian: “گور دسته‌جمعی”
  • Persian: “گورستان دسته جمعی”
  • Persian: “گورهای دسته جمعی”
  • Polish: “grób zbiorowy”
  • Polish: “mogiła zbiorowa”
  • Polish: “Mogiła zbiorowa”
  • Polish: “zbiorowa mogiła”
  • Polish: “zbiorowy grób”
  • Portuguese: “sepultura coletiva”
  • Portuguese: “sepulturas em massa”
  • Portuguese: “Vala comum”
  • Romanian: “Groapă comună”
  • Russian: “Братская могила воинов”
  • Russian: “братская могила”
  • Russian: “Братская могила”
  • Sardinian: “Forada massiva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masovna grobnica”
  • Sindhi: “اجتماعي قبر”
  • Skolt Sami: “joukkäuʹdd”
  • Slovenian: “masovno grobišče”
  • Slovenian: “množični grob”
  • Slovenian: “množični pokop”
  • Slovenian: “množično grobišče”
  • Slovenian: “skupni grob”
  • Spanish: “fosa común (masiva)”
  • Spanish: “fosa común”
  • Spanish: “Fosa común”
  • Swedish: “massgrav”
  • Swedish: “Massgrav”
  • Turkish: “toplu mezar”
  • Turkish: “Toplu mezar”
  • Ukrainian: “братська могила”
  • Ukrainian: “Братська могила”
  • Ukrainian: “братське захоронення”
  • Ukrainian: “захоронення братське”
  • Ukrainian: “колективна могила”
  • Ukrainian: “масове захоронення”
  • Ukrainian: “могила братська”
  • Ukrainian: “спільна могила”
  • Vietnamese: “Mộ tập thể”
  • Yue Chinese: “亂葬崗”

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