Kommunarka shooting ground

The Kommunarka shooting site, often mistakenly called Kommunarka firing range —the former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda—was used as an execution site and from 1937 to 1941.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: place of mass executions during Stalinism near Moscow
  • Also known as: “«Камунарка»”, “«Камунарка» (расстрэльны палігон)”, “Kommunarka shooting site”, “Камунарка”, “Коммунарка (расстрельный полигон)”, “Расстрельный полигон «Коммунарка»”, and “Спецобъект Коммунарка”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Olkhovaya and Kommunarka.

Metro station
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is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. is situated 1¼ km south of Kommunarka shooting ground.

Metro station
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is a station on the Troitskaya line of the Moscow Metro. is situated 1 km southeast of Kommunarka shooting ground.

Metro station
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is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. is situated 1½ km northwest of Kommunarka shooting ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gazoprovod and Kommunarka.

Village
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is a village.

Town
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is an urban-type settlement in Sosenskoye…

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Kommunarka shooting ground

Latitude
55.57837° or 55° 34′ 42″ north
Longitude
37.45416° or 37° 27′ 15″ east
Open location code
9G7VHFH3+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1317128307
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q2068654
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yakut—“Kommunarka shooting ground” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կոմունարկայի կրակահրապարակ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kommunarka poliqonu”
  • Bashkir: “Коммунарка атыу полигоны”
  • Bashkir: “Коммунарка”
  • Basque: “Kommunarka fusilamendu-eremua”
  • Belarusian: “расстрэльны палігон «Камунарка»”
  • Belarusian: “Расстрэльны палігон «Камунарка»”
  • Bulgarian: “Комунарка”
  • Catalan: “Camp d’afusellament Kommunarka”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆڕەپانی تەقەکردنی کۆممونارکا”
  • Chinese: “科穆纳尔卡射击场”
  • Czech: “Kommunarka”
  • Czech: “popraviště a hřbitov Kommunarka”
  • Danish: “Henrettelsespladsen Kommunarka”
  • Esperanto: “Kommunarka pafejo”
  • Estonian: “Kommunarka”
  • Finnish: “Kommunarka”
  • French: “Kommounarka”
  • Georgian: “კომუნარკა (სასჯელაღსრულების ადგილი)”
  • German: “Kommunarka”
  • Greek: “σκοπευτήριο Κομμουνάρκα”
  • Hebrew: “גיא ההריגה בקומונרקה”
  • Hungarian: “Kommunarka”
  • Indonesian: “Lapangan tembak Kommunarka”
  • Japanese: “コムナルカ射撃場”
  • Korean: “콤무나르카 사격장”
  • Latvian: “Komunarka”
  • Latvian: “Nošaušanas poligons ‘Komunarka’”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kommunarka rettersted”
  • Persian: “محل تیرباران کومونارکا”
  • Polish: “Kommunarka”
  • Portuguese: “Campo de fuzilamento de Communarka”
  • Portuguese: “Campo de fuzilamento de Kommunarka”
  • Romanian: “Kommounarka”
  • Russian: “Коммунарка”
  • Slovenian: “strelišče Komunarka”
  • Spanish: “Campo de fusilamiento de Communarka”
  • Swedish: “Kommunarka skjutbana”
  • Tajik: “Коммунарка”
  • Tatar: “«Коммунарка» ату полигоны”
  • Ukrainian: “Розстрільний полігон «Комунарка»”
  • Uzbek: “Kommunarka”
  • Yakut: “Коммунарка (өлөрөр сир)”
  • Yakut: “Коммунарка”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Церковь Новомучеников и Исповедников Российских and Петровский базар.

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Places to explore: Схимонахиня Алексия (Ретунская) and Аллея памяти.

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