🏛️ Kurapaty

Belarus · Europe · 53.97°N, 27.61°E

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.

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Country	Belarus
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	53.97°N, 27.61°E · view on map

Kurapaty is located in Belarus, in Europe.

More historic sites in Belarus

The Pit (memorial).

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