Sandarmokh

Sandarmokh (Сандармох) is a forest massif in Medvezhyegorsky District, Karelia, Russia, a burial site of victims of Soviet political repressions, where over 9,000 bodies were discovered after the place was found in 1997 by members of the Memorial Society.

According to the documents found in the archives of FSB in Arkhangelsk, there were people of 58 nationalities.

Notable victims

 * Nikolay Durnovo (ru:Дурново, Николай Николаевич), Russian linguist
 * Hryhorii Epik, a Ukrainian writer
 * Nikolay Hrisanfov (fi:Krisun Miikul), a Karelian writer
 * Mykola Kulish, a Ukrainian writer, educator, journalist, playwright.
 * Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian theater director
 * Valerian Pidmohylny, a Ukrainian writer
 * Kalle Vento, a Finnish journalist (fi:Kalle Vento)
 * Mykhailo Yalovy, a Ukrainian writer, publicist, playwright
 * Mykola Zerov, an Ukrainian poet
 * Father Peter Weigel, Volga German priest
 * 141 Finnish Americans who had emigrated to the USSR and then shot and buried in Sandarmokh by the NKVD are listed by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, in their book In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage (2003). 127 Finnish Canadians were also shot and buried there.