Kommunarka

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Kommunarka
Коммунарка
Sosenskoye Settlement in Moscow
Sosenskoye Settlement in Moscow
CountryRussia
Federal subjectMoscow
Population
 • Total
5,223

Kommunarka is an urban-type settlement (posyolok) in Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. The Kommunarka (Sokolnicheskaya line) station opened in 2019.

History

A mass burial site of the late 1930s, known as the Kommunarka shooting ground or "firing range". is also located in the area. Most of the defendants at the third and last Moscow Show Trial (March 1938) are buried there.

References

  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)