Historical–Memorial Complex "Graves of Bykivnia"

The Bykivnia graves (Bykivnians'ki mohyly) are a National Historic Memorial next to the former village of Bykivnia (Bykownia) within Kyiv woodland, Bykivnia Forest. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of thousands of murdered "enemies of the Soviet state". Bykivnia as a residential place still exists as a locality with the same Bykivnia Forest. The National Memorial is located across Brovarskyi Prospect from Bykivnia, next to the former Rybne Soviet fishery in the thick of the woods. The number of dead bodies buried there is estimated between "dozens of thousand", to 30,000, to 100,000. Some estimates place the number as high as 200,000.

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