A woman holds an icon lamp during events marking the Commemoration Day of Victims of Political Repression in the Garden of Memory at the Butovo shooting range in Moscow region, Russia. Butovo was used for mass executions and mass graves during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, with 20,762 prisoners of various nationalities documented as being transported to the site and executed by the Soviet secret police.
- Categories: Religion & Belief, Human Interest
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 30.10.2023
- Date published: 30.10.2023
- Author: Ramil Sitdikov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5686x3707px, 14.8Mb
- Job-ID: bc8c09b4553d302e