Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
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levashovo-memorial-cemetery-206-3255930
title:
Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
text:
Levashovo Memorial Cemetery commemorates the victims of political repression between 1937 and 1954: some were shot, others died in the city's prisons, all were buried here in unmarked graves. Archival evidence suggests that 19,540 bodies lie here, 8,000 of whom were shot or died during the Great Terror. The cemetery is located near the rail station at Levashovo, Saint Petersburg, in an empty area referred to in Russian as the Levashovskaya Pustosh, the Levashovo Wasteland. Bodies dating back to
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description:
Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levashovo_Memorial_Cemetery
date created:
2007-07-11T13:49:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:47:07Z
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13
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