Locality
37°35´11" east longitude, 55°32´39" north latitiude [ map ]
Name
Memorial Field, near Moscow, Butovo, Russia, Europa
Personal relationship of donor
It comes from the Execution Field where at least 20.000 people lost their life in 1930s and 1940s under the Bolshevik Totalitarian Regime. Among the executed were people of different walks of life, including about 1.000 Clergy, Monks and Nuns. 294 men and women lying there were canonised as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox church. The Remains are in mass graves. A church was been built there, and a Memorial is being constructed.
Classification of the earth
Structure
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grob/fein
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Colour
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hellbraun
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Donor
Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin, 22 Danilovsky Val Moscow, 115191 Russia