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1923–1991

Kharkiv

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About

In 1917–1934 capital city of the Ukrainian SSR. It was home to several prisons and GPU, OGPU and later NKVD interrogation centres. From 1945 to 1950 the location of a camp for POWs and People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR internees.

Camp system

cemetery

Location

49.9808, 36.2527 — view on OpenStreetMap

Primary sources