In the south of St. Petersburg, the remains of victims of red terror were buried

On the cemetery of the victims of the victims on January 22, the ceremony of the burial of the remains of the victims of the Red Terror took place at the cemetery of the victims in the south of St. Petersburg. These remains were found at the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress in 2009 and in 2013.

In the studying Soviet state terror of the St. Petersburg Scientific and Information Center, Memorial notes that neither archaeological nor anthropological works have been completed to this day: excavations have stopped to preserve the road, parking and helicopter site at the Trubetskoy bastion, the number of unknown, a memorial sign at the initial place of regional regionalities. Installed.

Nevertheless, in 2022 it was decided to burrow the remains, which, after their discovery, were stored in the Museum of the History of the City. In total, in the south of St. Petersburg the remains of more than 170 killed are buried, but only 16 people managed to identify. "Paper" shows in four photographs how the ceremony passed.

During the civil war, the Peter and Paul Fortress was one of the places where the Bolsheviks shot convicts: White Guards, counter -revolutionaries, class enemies and anyone who could be detained "by mistake." Mass graves of victims of red terror did not touch 80 years.

In 2014, “Paper” told how scientists were trying to preserve the remains, why they began to look for them only now and because of which it is almost impossible to determine who is buried near the walls of Petropavlovka.

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