Yuzhnoye Butovo District
Yuzhnoye Butovo District (Southern Butovo, Russian: Ю́жное Бу́тово) is the biggest residential district in South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. The district's history dates back to 1612, and it is named after a Don Cossack Butov. The area of the district is 27 square kilometres (10 sq mi).[1] The population (July 2016) was 207,903.
Butovo memorial
Situated approximately 27 km south-east of Moscow, Butovo is the site of the Butovo firing range, a mass grave dating from the "Great Purge" of the 1930s. In excess of 20,000 people were shot and buried there from August 1937 to October 1938 [1]. It has become a shrine to Joseph Stalin's victims and has an Orthodox church on the grounds.
References
- ^ a b c "General Information" (in Russian). Yuzhnoye Butovo District. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
External links
- Media related to South Butovo at Wikimedia Commons
55°32′46″N 37°32′39″E / 55.54611°N 37.54417°E / 55.54611; 37.54417
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