The myth of the "Butovo training ground" became the rallying point of anti-Russian forces, just as the Great Victory Day is the rallying point of patriotic forces. They are both liberal and blatant. Each handshake person should remember the endless multitude of "innocent victims of the Bolshevik experiment killed by the tyrant" buried at the Butovo training ground.
A museum, funds are being created, a whole Butovo cultural tradition is being created, etc.
And the king is naked. In fact, there is nothing to rely on.

Let's search.

We go to the site http://www.sinodik.ru/?q=static&id=2 Project site.
Project Manager - I. V. Garkavy ([email protected]) (Write a letter)
Notice a desovetizer on the editorial board Fedotova M.A., Doctor of Law, Professor, Chairman of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights at that time. (now I don’t know what position he holds. What is understandable)

They write:
“It is very important that the database will be constantly updated with new information. Over time, its Internet version on the site www.sinodik.ru should become a kind of electronic encyclopedia of the historical monument Butovo training ground. "

Completely without reference to some of the most dull source of the reader is introduced to the topic:

“In the mid-1930s. on the eve of the mass executions, the NKVD Economic Department took care of looking for places for burials. Three such objects were allocated near Moscow: in the area of the Butovo village, ...
Local residents were told that practice fires would be fired in the vicinity of their villages. After the notorious order of NI Yezhov No. 00447 of July 30, 1937, mass executions began here. In total, from August 8, 1937 to October 19, 1938, 20,761 people were killed at the test site. The first execution under these orders was carried out on August 8, 1937. On that day, 91 people were killed. "
And off we go: how the executions were carried out, how the executed were brought in, when, on what, accompanied by someone, etc. It is interesting, but there are no sources. From the word GENERAL.
Garkavy writes as if he himself was a participant in the executions. We will not believe it. It does not go away by age.
“Already in 1994, a group of believers, according to a sketch by D. M. Shakhovsky, erected the Poklonniy Cross, at the same time the first liturgy was served in a camping tent church on the territory of the polygon.<…>By the works of Fr. Cyril and members of the church community, work began on the improvement of the territory of mass graves ...»

Pay attention: social activities are already underway, everything is already as if everything has been known for a long time, no one is afraid - what if a mistake? But only

“In August 1997 In August 1997, with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch, archaeological excavations were carried out on a small area of the landfill. A section of the burial ditch with an area of 12.5 m2 was uncovered. The remains of 59 people were found on the open surface of the burial. In total, 13 ditches have now been identified, with a total length of almost 900 meters.

Not a word about whether something was found or not, but
“On August 9, 2001, by the decree of the Government of the Moscow Region, the Butovo training ground was declared a historical and cultural monument of local importance. Together with the protected zones, the total area of the historical monument was about 3 square meters. kilometers. In 2005-2006, the territory was landscaped and embankments were made over the burial ditches. "
- ops, and already embankments. We covered everything. Like covering their tracks. But what about the investigation, gentlemen-comrades? What about the expertise? Not a word.

But

“In 2002, at the initiative of the parishioners of the church and relatives of the victims, with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch, in order to coordinate the efforts of state, religious and public organizations to create a memorial complex Memorial Scientific and Educational Center "Butovo".

Its main statutory goal (attention!) -"In the restoration of historical justice through the maximum possible preservation for future generations of spiritual, scientific and aesthetic values created by people who died during the years of mass repressions".
So far, nothing has been heard about the mentioned created values.

"Through the joint efforts of the Center and the Parish, a Museum of the Memory of the Victims is being created, for which the parish restored the building of the former commandant's office of the Butovo special zone of the NKVD."
Further - honestly:
“It is based on the execution lists of the NKVD, covering the names of 20,761 people published in the memory books“ Butovo training ground ”. Gradually, scattered documents and testimonies are gathered around this list, the analysis of which can only be carried out when the database is created. "
- that is, there was no analysis and no work. Well, what are the execution lists? Let me see! Where did you come from like a grand piano from the bushes?

But maybe we will go to the section "Documents and certificates", and there we will see the fruits of the works of the guardians of historical memory?
No, it's empty. Virginly empty. http://p8.inetstar.ru/docs/ or http://www.sinodik.ru/docs/

“In 1962, Boleslav Stanislavovich received three certificates:“ Rehabilitated for lack of corpus delicti. ” The years of death were indicated: 1942, 1943. They allegedly died in the camps during the war from some kind of disease.»
And an indistinct attempt to somehow connect it with Butovo."Then nobody knew about Butovo".
Can we rely on THIS as evidence? - No.
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One more work: Smirnova T.A.Portrait of Count Yuri Olsufiev.
We read the portrait. Where is Butovo? Here's Butovo: in the last line.
"Saying goodbye to life, I would like to say goodbye to it here." 10/23 July 1933, Staraya Ladoga 12.
He was shot on the cold night of March 14, 1938 at the Butovo training ground near Moscow. "Is there any logic? There is no logic. To hell with logic! A matter of national importance.

It was a warm-up. Now for your attention another study, the author is unknown. I took it.
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The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.
(Dr. Goebbels).

There is a lot of talk now about this place.
The term "Russian Golgotha" has already been introduced into circulation, anyone can google and find a million links on this issue, from dry documentary to yellowness of various levels.

I hadn’t heard anything about the landfill before, and this historical period was always interesting to me, therefore, having heard out of the way, I decided to climb in more detail on the net, take a look.
Well, I worked out enough material to see that they were all copied: it is repeated everywhere that
"Only according to official data, in the period from August 1937 to October 1938, 20 765 human"
(although according to other data, by the way, lying on the site dedicated to Butov - " in Moscow and the Moscow region, 27,508 people were sentenced to capital punishment for the period from 1935 to 1953 "), everywhere it is said that for the burial of so many people with a bulldozer (in some places - with an excavator, and in one place even a certain hybrid" bulldozer-excavator "is described, even its name is given -" Komsomolets "(which is already an obvious invention - such was not, and they certainly did not give their own names to the excavators,) special ditches were dug, everywhere it is reported that “200, 300, 500 people were shot per day. The ditches filled up gradually. ", and the filled-in ditches themselves are clearly visible in aerial photographs.

The same facts, the same numbers, in general, the source is clearly the same, most likely a book "Butovo training ground. 1937-1938". M., Institute of Experimental Sociology, 1997.

Although some (in general, without doubting either the numbers or the facts), nevertheless notice inconsistencies and try to calculate (pure mathematics):

“The execution of sentences in Butovo was carried out by one of the so-called firing squads. According to acting commandant, it consisted of 3-4 people, and in the days of especially mass executions, the number of performers increased. The special detachment, according to the driver of the NKVD motor depot, consisted of 12 people.
Let's say that the maximum number of performers was involved - 12 people. This means that each of them managed to kill 46-47 people. The convicts were not "mowed down" in bursts, no: they were individually shot in the back of the head. How long could this procedure take - withdrawal from the barracks in two, a direct shot, return to the barracks for new ones doomed to death? Let's take a minimum time of 10 minutes. So, the executor spent 470 minutes on the execution of 46-47 sentenced - that's almost 8 hours of continuous murder! "

The explanation is simple - they drank vodka in liters, so they shot so accurately for eight hours in a row. It is hard to believe, of course, - to jam the viper all working day, and even at the same time all this time it is clever to handle both small arms and a sober prisoner, yes. Not to mention alcohol intoxication and delirium tremens - apparently, only Yezhov's NKVD officers could function without interruption in this mode for a whole year.

In general, many doubt the numbers, but then they correct themselves:

"There were four gunmen working in Butovo. But, let's say, on February 28, 1938, 562 people were shot at the firing range. It's hard to imagine that everyone," in the back of the head, "killed more than 140 people.", after all, who wants to believe - will believe: "So, either there was help, or automata."

I'm not a specialist, I could be mistaken, but as far as I know, machine guns as such have appeared in service with the Red Army only since 1941, the Shpagin submachine gun ( PPSh) - v 1941-1942 year, and before that the NKVD could only use the Fedorov automatic rifle, but, again, as far as I know, it was not produced from the USSR, but and the weapons in the NKVD were only "pistols (Mauser)", and "The operational staff of the NKVD, the operational and command staff of the militia were to be armed with a three-line rifle, a pistol and 2 hand grenades. The rank and file were armed with a three-line rifle and 2 hand grenades."

And of course, appetites are growing: "The list of 20,000 is considered incomplete, they say that hundreds of thousands were shot here," says the director of the Butovo Memorial Scientific and Educational Center Igor Garkavy" - and in some publications they already boldly say that on Butovo there are hundreds of thousands of those shot.
(on my own: if you go to the website of the Butovo Project http://www.sinodik.ru/?q=static&id=2
, we will see in the calendar "On this day at the Butovo training ground" for today, April 27, that, according to the Project, 68 people were shot on that day. In total, there were 5 dates in April when the executions were carried out: 5,7, 11,14 and 27 April. In March - 8 dates. In May - 7. And months in two years - 24.)

Well, one can understand Garkavy, now Butovo is his job, he quite skillfully squeezes money from the budget for this business:

"To begin with, we had to stop the construction here, in Drozhzhino, a microdistrict of several multi-storey buildings ... it was decided to preserve this place as a historical monument ... This question was put before the joint board of the Government of Moscow and the Moscow Region. , but in fact the restoration of the surviving wing of the estate. We assumed it was in this building to organize a museum. We need funds for our archival work, current work, because we need supplies, equipment, and at least some kind of salaries for people ... The deeper we are working on this project, the more problems still arise, and mostly purely domestic ones. the issue of communications: primarily electricity. We need to supply gas, everything needs to be changed. "

In general, though " About Butovo, as a place of mass executions and burials ", not a word was said either during the" Beria rehabilitation "or during the" Khrushchev thaw " and also nowhere to be found " not a single document, not a single order, at least indirectly confirming the existence of the special object Butovo", but some kind of information stuffing still happened, and from him the information is distributed by the method of a damaged phone.
Question - sorry for the rhyme - where did the stuffing come from? And why? Little did it happen, and so it was in the thirties? Why and who needed to aggravate?

"In the Central Archives of the FSB there is a fund number 7, containing acts on the execution of sentences, in which no one before 1991 did not look. It was there that the Group Mozokhina documents were found, indicating that in 1921-1928. burials of victims of repression were carried out in the very center of Moscow on the territory of the Yauzskaya hospital, from 1926 to 1936. - at the Vagankovsky cemetery, and from 1935 to 1953. - partly burial, partly cremation of the executed was carried out in a Moscow crematorium at the Donskoy cemetery. These documents contained clear instructions to the commandants of the cemeteries (who, along with many other communal services, were then part of the NKVD system). The picture was as follows: for each fact of burial or cremation there was a memorandum in which they asked to accept so many corpses (about 10-20 per day) with a list of names ".

Is it clear now. Accounting and control. However, the volumes are not the same. Little bloodlust. And here

"In 1991, through the efforts of a public group under the leadership of M. Mindlin, lists of executions were discovered with marks on the execution of sentences."

Or like this: "At the end of 1991, in the archives of the Moscow Office of the MB were discovered previously unknown, unregistered 18 volumes of cases with instructions and acts on the execution of sentences on executions of 20675 people in the period from August 8, 1937 to October 19, 1938."

In the other place: “And only at the end of 1991, in the archives of the Moscow KGB Directorate, previously unknown and nowhere registered materials were discovered. from the "veterans" of the NKVD, whose name the powerful department did not want to open, certified their signatures and confirmed the presence of "special objects" in Butovo and in "Kommunarka" ".

"The declassification of the Butovo landfill was not without a journalist: he turned out to be A.A. Milchakov, son of the repressed first secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee A.I. Milchakova", which the "groped" the polygon, "based on simple logic" - like, they were shot in millions, but on the territory of the Donskoy you can't put everyone down, somewhere it was necessary to bury the shot.
And here is Yagoda's dacha in Butovo, as well as the NKVD rest house, as well as the NKVD shooting range - this is it, everything grows together.
Well, Milchakov made a TV report (when - it is unclear, but I suppose, also in 1991, who remembers the wave of that time, will understand everything - the road is a spoon for dinner).

Documents, as I understand it (18 volumes), except for a group of researchers, no one has seen, although the lists of those executed are posted on the net, or here (not scans, however, but in Word format).
That's all the documents. In Word format. And most of the links (who are not too lazy to google on their own, will be convinced for themselves) - to words of unnamed "locals" and what a certain

"Employee of the FSB Public Relations Center, former Deputy Head of the Rehabilitation Group, FSB Colonel M. Ye. Kirillin"(the speeches of this colonel generally wander from publication to publication? I wonder if this is a real person at all, and if so, where is he now - is it in America or Britain, like his colleagues Suvorov and Kalugin).

Journalists, as usual, paint: "Hundreds of people ... silently wander along narrow paths between thirteen filled ditches, which stand out noticeably against the background of the earth. Twenty thousand silent skulls under this earth, twenty thousand restless souls among these rare trees ..." ...

On the other hand, it is known that

“In 1997, partial archaeological research was carried out: one of the burial ditches was opened. On an area of only 12 square meters, burials in five layers were found; experts counted the remains of 149 people here. and mapped 13 burial ditches. But the research has not been completed, answers to many questions have not yet been found. "

It would seem that these questions must be answered! It is not all the same to refer to rumors, to the words of anonymous "former NKVD drivers", to 18 volumes of "previously unaccounted for archives" M. Mindlina" , as I understand, and have not seen, and which have already been published in a six-volume archive.

After all, if, as they write, in fact, up to half a thousand people were shot per day, then it is necessary to carry out exhumation, reburial, in general, to provide the world with evidence, and for those killed - a worthy rest.

After all - "Thirteen ditches filled to the brim with dead people like mud."
Although no one is going to do this, as I understand it, they will immediately build a museum and a memorial complex, not really understanding what was happening there.
Maybe because:
- Were the remains of specific people found?
- No. This requires, apparently, some very complex research. Judging by the excavation done in 1997, there are no intact remains of, say, a human skeleton. Everything is mixed there ... They filled up the ditches with anything, garbage. "

Rubbish. From 20 to 100,000 victims were covered with garbage so that found only 149 people.It is explained like this: " it is simply impossible to identify individual remains now : those executed lie so tightly that archaeologists who have recently excavated 12 square meters have found the remains of 149 people. ".

We found 149 at 12 meters, then, as I understand it, we multiplied this figure by the approximate area of the ditches, so the puzzle came together with the answer that was suggested by Mindlin's group. For some reason, I recall the case with the discovery of another mass grave site (I can't find the link, but the story on the network is known, many should remember it), about which it was immediately announced - here it is, another evidence of the crimes of the NKVD (and there the children's remains were found , women, etc.) - in general, just gathered to erect another monument to the victims, it turned out that this is a plague burial of the thirteenth century.

In Butovo, the Butovo Memorial Center has already been created, work is underway on "creation of a memorial complex on the site of the former special zone of the NKVD-FSB" Butovo " and also write that "A database is being created" Victims of Mass Terror, Shot at the Butovo Range by the NKVD in 1937-1938. With the support of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (grant No. 06-01-12140v) unique software is created. Work is underway to digitize documents and photographs. The publication of this Database on the Internet is being prepared ", but for some reason it seems to me that the word "grant" is the key here and it is not worth counting on the appearance in the network of digitized documents confirming the mass shootings in Butovo in such a volume.

Especially when, already knowing about the "unexpectedly found" 18 volumes, the undocumented stories of unknown eyewitnesses and the colonel M. E. Kirillina, you read that FSB allocated this polygon to the Patriarchate almost voluntarily, moreover, at first they did not want to, but then "These issues were resolved unexpectedly quickly." and then "At the expense of the Moscow government, a road from Varshavskoye Highway was practically rebuilt in Drozhzhino. A bus was launched here, a regular service was established. This route was organized precisely so that people would come to the burial site.", then it becomes clear that the case was sanctioned from the very top, the most striking evidence of which is not even the FSB, but the fact that Luzhkov backed down from building a residential neighborhood there.

Already, "Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II laid a new stone church in Butovo," and "Putin bowed to the victims of the" Russian Golgotha "."

Something seems to be that this whole terrible story with the testing ground is another anti-Soviet myth, moreover, it is called upon to bind the USSR and Hitlerite Germany more tightly. It is not for nothing that almost all publications mention such recognizable details as the actual ditches, the "gas chambers" in which the prisoners were gassed (yes, we are told that the NKVD did this even before the war, before the Nazis), as well as such the facts that before the execution of the prisoners they stripped naked and then plundered things - everything is like in fascist concentration camps, just put an equal sign, not to mention the fact that the whole point is like a carbon copy of the Katyn execution case, about which many copies have already been broken.

After all, it's almost official: "Butovo training ground is one of the largest in Europe places of mass executions and burials of victims of political repression."

And of course, "Our short memory and lack of repentance for the sins of communism, as it was in post-fascist Germany, will inevitably lead Russia to a new year 1937".

In general, to the point, I all mean that: does anyone have information on the landfill - except for that yellowness, rumors and the number 20,765, in general, what lies everywhere on the Internet and is distributed under a carbon copy from one and the other dubious source?
Has anyone already subjected the information to scientific analysis? I critically tried to comprehend it and, perhaps, check it (my text, of course, does not pretend to be anything like that - there is neither time nor skills, just the topic interested). If there is info, share it, pliz.

I have no doubt that in the thirties harsh lawlessness was going on, I do not in the slightest wish to underestimate the size of this tragedy, but I would like to know if this whole story with the training ground was falsified.
I would like to clarify.
Purely for yourself. For now.

On common sense, it seems to me more and more that the story with the test site is pure Goebbels. Everything is too neat in the official version and too many unanswered questions remain on the merits.
I do not believe that four (or even 12) people could deploy such a massacre using only revolvers. I do not believe that prisoners were taken to Butovo to be shot; this is now the outskirts, and in 1937, when Moscow was five times smaller, and the roads are five times worse, no one would drive paddy wagons every night (one road for three hours to two ends, plus gasoline, plus depreciation). The sentences were carried out in the basements and courtyards of prisons, there are tons of documentary evidence, and the corpses were taken to the nearest special cemeteries - it is possible that one of them was Butovo, and prisoners were really buried there for thirty years, but between the mass burial and mass execution still makes a difference, right?

I do not believe that these so often mentioned ditches were dug specifically for executions - Butovo was officially a shooting range, and every equipped shooting range must have fortification and trench nets for training soldiers in conditions close to combat. Tales that some new types of weapons are being tested at shooting ranges are all jaundice, although there are such tests, in 99 percent of cases the shooting range is used for shooting practice and running soldiers. Hence the trench lines, which, I think, with the onset of the war and the approach of German troops to the capital, were reinforced and re-equipped for military operations as lines of defense. After the war, they, apparently, were partially covered over time, and partially they were used as waste bins (hence the garbage in the ditches). We must not forget that in the area of the landfill there was previously a manor, and then - warehouses of the NKVD and the rest house of the NKVD, therefore some part of the filled ditches may simply be traces of the laying of communications - gas, water, sewerage. In general, until the remains with traces of bullets are presented, as well as some sane documents on the executions at Butovo, the story can be questioned.
For the mass grave in Katyn, for example, there are whole libraries, photo libraries and even video libraries, but for Butovo - as I understand it, there are no documents, except for the mentioned collection "Butovo training ground. 1937-1938".

By the way, about mass graves - Did any of the journalists even try to think that a hecatomb of this scale (and, as they say, sprinkled with a "thin layer of earth") is a guaranteed epidemic in the area?

How many crows should hang over the landfill, how many dogs and wild animals should come to tear graves, what hordes of rats should settle at the feast, what smell should stand for kilometers around, and how quickly a plague will sprout in a global grave, carried by groundwater - and all this is next to the capital?
And how muchbleach must be poured into the ditches to avoid this - what a "thin layer of earth" here, according to the sanitary standards of actions to prevent epidemics when performing mass graves (mass graves) during the war, according to the sanitary standards of action that I have deducted somewhere (mass graves) during the war, at least 100 grams of bleach should be poured per kilogram of cadaveric weight, and close settlements - half a kilo. Let's calculate the volume of chlorine delivery to Butovo?

And so far there are no official results of exhumation - with traces of bullet holes, carbon analysis of the remains (to make sure that the burial is not the thirteenth, say, century, and also not a nineties bandit hideout for the corpses of hostages), as well as shell casings, etc. - to check the weapons from which the shots were fired, after all, by and large, the Germans were there too, and the fighting was there, so who the 149 people found and who killed them still need to be established), - in general, while everything is based on such a shaky foundation, the whole story evokes little trust.

In fact, only the surnames given are documented (as well as - as they say, biographies and summaries of the sentences of the executed), and, I think, they are all real - only this is where and from what documents they were taken, so far it is not very clear - after all, according to During the period from 1935 to 1953, 27,508 people were sentenced to capital punishment in Moscow and the Moscow Region, and about 800,000 people were sentenced to death throughout the country, so the names will be enough for more than one polygon.

In the meantime, the following theory seems to me the most probable: after the August 1991 coup, on the wave of anti-Sovietism and the destruction of all the institutions of the USSR and its ideology, the "memorials", who in general are always used in the dark, were thrown these "unexpectedly found 18 volumes", as well as confirmation events that were made by unnamed persons, as well as professional disinformers. This was inspired by the Yeltsin mafia in order to support the ideological justification of their anti-Sovietism, which, in turn, was the first step towards personal enrichment. However, at that stage, Yeltsin coped without Butov.
By 1993, the whole idea was clear. And the second wave of Butovo history coincides with the time that followed the shooting of the Palace of Soviets and the appearance of the term "red-brown", Mark Deutsch then wrote articles that began with the words "as you know, fascism and communism are expressed more modestly), in general, the information that the executioners of the NKVD surpassed the executioners of the SS came in handy.

Well, the Butovo epic received another renaissance in 1995, when Yeltsin was elected for a second term (who still remembers "vote with your heart"), and when the USSR was painted in such colors and with such Goebbels methods that it was even creepy. Why then there was no global injection of information that hecatombs of such a scale were found in the near Moscow region, I do not know - most likely, they simply did not have time to prepare the material so that it would be perceived more holistically. Indeed, even now, after ten years of work, as we can see, even a cursory glance makes us ask a lot of questions. Or maybe other, more effective methods were found, or they simply abandoned the idea for other reasons.

However, the fact that this project is not being promoted as it could, but it is not being closed (and we understand that Luzhkov would gladly build a residential neighborhood there, regardless of how many people are buried there) suggests that he is being held back as a bargaining chip for the future. Just in case. Moreover, as time goes on, people are getting stupid, it is becoming easier to manipulate them, and in another five to ten years no one will ask the slightest question whether there was a boy.

The following materials, in continuation of this.

Let's search.

Completely without reference to some of the most dull source of the reader is introduced to the topic:
“In the mid-1930s. on the eve of the mass executions, the NKVD Economic Department took care of looking for places for burials. Three such objects were allocated near Moscow: in the area of the Butovo village, ...
Local residents were told that practice fires would be fired in the vicinity of their villages. After the notorious order of NI Yezhov No. 00447 of July 30, 1937, mass executions began here. In total, from August 8, 1937 to October 19, 1938, 20,761 people were killed at the test site. The first execution under these orders was carried out on August 8, 1937. On that day, 91 people were killed. "
And off we go: how the executions were carried out, how the executed were brought in, when, on what, accompanied by someone, etc. It is interesting, but there are no sources. From the word GENERAL.
Garkavy writes as if he himself was a participant in the executions. We will not believe it. It does not go away by age.

We read on.
“Already in 1994, a group of believers, according to a sketch by D. M. Shakhovsky, erected the Poklonniy Cross, at the same time the first liturgy was served in a camping tent church on the territory of the polygon.<…>By the works of Fr. Cyril and members of the church community, work began on the improvement of the territory of mass graves ...»

Pay attention: social activities are already underway, everything is already as if everything has been known for a long time, no one is afraid - what if a mistake? But only
“In August 1997 In August 1997, with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch, archaeological excavations were carried out on a small area of the landfill. A section of the burial ditch with an area of 12.5 m2 was uncovered. The remains of 59 people were found on the open surface of the burial. In total, 13 ditches have now been identified, with a total length of almost 900 meters.

But “In 2002, at the initiative of the parishioners of the church and relatives of the victims, with the blessing of His Holiness the Patriarch, in order to coordinate the efforts of state, religious and public organizations to create a memorial complex Memorial Scientific and Educational Center "Butovo".

Already and "Through the joint efforts of the Center and the Parish, a Museum of the Memory of the Victims is being created, for which the parish restored the building of the former commandant's office of the Butovo special zone of the NKVD."
Further - honestly:
“It is based on the execution lists of the NKVD, covering the names of 20,761 people published in the memory books“ Butovo training ground ”. Gradually, scattered documents and testimonies are gathered around this list, the analysis of which can only be carried out when the database is created. "
- that is, there was no analysis and no work. Well, what are the execution lists? Let me see! Where did you come from like a grand piano from the bushes?

In chapter "Research" -
"From the notes of the holy martyr Sergiy Sidorov, who was shot at the Butovo training ground on September 27, 1937"
His story about the funeral of Patriarch Tikhon is presented. Everything.
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The story of a relative of the repressed. She remembers relatives. The story ends like this:
“In 1962, Boleslav Stanislavovich received three certificates:“ Rehabilitated for lack of corpus delicti. ” The years of death were indicated: 1942, 1943. They allegedly died in the camps during the war from some kind of disease.»
And an indistinct attempt to somehow connect it with Butovo."Then nobody knew about Butovo".
Can we rely on THIS as evidence? - No.
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One more work: Smirnova T.A.Portrait of Count Yuri Olsufiev.
We read the portrait. Where is Butovo? Here's Butovo: in the last line.
"Saying goodbye to life, I would like to say goodbye to it here." 10/23 July 1933, Staraya Ladoga 12.
He was shot on the cold night of March 14, 1938 at the Butovo training ground near Moscow. "Is there any logic? There is no logic. To hell with logic! A matter of national importance.