Chelyabinsk residents discovered a mass grave | News from Germany about Russia | DW

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Residents of the Shershni microdistrict in Chelyabinsk, laying sewers on their site, found human skulls and bones at a depth of three meters. This was announced on Monday, October 25, by the portal 74.ru. The head of the central district of Chelyabinsk, Viktor Ereklintsev, said that the residents should suspend work while the departments are looking into the situation. The Investigative Committee began an investigation into the discovery of human remains.

Local historian Yuri Latyshev said that remains had already been found in this area at the end of the 90s. At the same time, there has never been a cemetery here. At the time of the last find, newspapers associated the burial with the repressions of the 1930s and the abandoned gold-mining mines, where the NKVD officers dumped the executed. One of them could be located at the site of the current find. According to Novaya Gazeta, in 1956, the second secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional party committee, Mikhail Solomentsev, reported that in 1937-1938 alone, 25,368 people were repressed on this territory, of which 14,379 were sentenced to death.

However, the appearance of the remains in this place may be caused by other circumstances, since according to a number of witnesses, the skulls do not have characteristic bullet holes.

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