Yuzhnoye Butovo District
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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.
Butovo memorial
Main article: Butovo firing range
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 . It has become a shrine to Joseph Stalin's victims and has an Orthodox church on the grounds.
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Media related to South Butovo at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 55°32′46″N 37°32′39″E / 55.54611°N 37.54417°E
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| Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug |
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