Kurapaty, Mass grave in Belarus
Kurapaty is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, known as a mass grave site for victims of Stalin's purges.
From 1937 to 1941, thousands of people were executed in Kurapaty by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.
Kurapaty has become a symbol of the suffering and oppression during the Stalinist era in Belarusian history.
There is no entrance fee to visit Kurapaty, which is open to the public year-round.
The exact number of victims buried within Kurapaty remains unknown, making it an ongoing subject of research and reverence.
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