Scattered across the length and breadth of Russia (see Map of Memory), and neighbouring Kazakhstan, are hundreds of neglected or concealed burial grounds. Some 1,500 are currently known; others await commemoration or discovery.
Belbaltlag prisoners’ cemetery, discovered by Yury Dmitriev in August 2003
In early July 1997, DMITRIEV together with Irina Flige and the late Veniamin Joffe discovered a huge killing field of the Great Terror near Medvezhegorsk in Karelia. Subsequently it became known as Sandarmokh.
Weeks later, in early September, he and Sergei Chugunkov identify the Krasny Bor killing field and burial ground not far from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia.
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