Kurapaty
Kurapaty 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 and in particular, during the Soviet repressions in Belarus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tobster, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of Christ Resurrection, Minsk and Zialiony Luh Urban Forest.
Church of Christ Resurrection, Minsk
Church
Photo: S1gmundpe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Church of Christ Resurrection, Minsk is situated 1¼ km south of Kurapaty.
Zialiony Luh Urban Forest
Forest
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zialiony Luh Urban Forest is situated 3 km southeast of Kurapaty.
Zialiony Hackerspace
Hackspace
Photo: Mr. Zabej, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zialiony Hackerspace is a hackspace, which is situated 3 km south of Kurapaty.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soniečny and Drozdava.
Baravaya
Hamlet
Photo: Zelyoniy.anton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baravaya is a hamlet, which is situated 2½ km east of Kurapaty.
Kurapaty
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: wooded area outside Minsk, Belarus
- Categories: cemetery, place of mass murder, forest, and tourism
- Location: Minsk District, Minsk Region, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.96776° or 53° 58′ 4″ northLongitude
27.6084° or 27° 36′ 30″ eastOpen location code
9G59XJ95+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 3685368723OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q9708
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Kurapaty” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Krupatı”
- Bashkir: “Курапат”
- Belarusian: “Курапаты”
- Belarusian: “Урочышча Курапаты”
- Catalan: “Kurapaty”
- Chinese: “库拉帕蒂”
- Chinese: “庫拉帕蒂”
- Croatian: “Kurapaty”
- Czech: “Kurapaty”
- Czech: “Kuropaty”
- Dutch: “Kurapaty”
- Esperanto: “Kurapaty”
- Esperanto: “Masakro de Kurapati”
- Estonian: “Kurapatõ”
- Finnish: “Kurapaty”
- French: “Kourapaty”
- Georgian: “კურაპატები”
- German: “Kurapaty”
- Greek: “Κουραπάτι”
- Italian: “Kurapaty”
- Korean: “쿠라파티”
- Latvian: “Kurapatu masu kapi”
- Lithuanian: “Kurapatai”
- Macedonian: “Курапати”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kurapaty”
- Polish: “Kuropaty”
- Portuguese: “Kurapaty”
- Russian: “Куропаты”
- Serbian: “Курапати”
- Spanish: “Kurapaty”
- Swedish: “Kurapatyskogen”
- Swedish: “Kuropatyskogen”
- Thai: “กูราปาตือ”
- Turkish: “Kurapatı”
- Turkish: “Kurapaty”
- Ukrainian: “Куропати”
- “Kurapaty”
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Highlights include ГПАП-100 and Simple.
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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 “Kurapaty”. Photo: Tobster, Public domain.