Memorial Katyn

Smolensk, Centre, Russia

Katyn is one of the most tragic places of the World War II. In Katyn Forest and its environs (mainly in the area Goat Hills) thousands of former Soviet political prisoners were executed. And in spring 1940 several thousand of Polish officers were executed there by the decisions of NKVD troikas.

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Attractions nearby

Assumption Cathedral

Smolensk fortified walls

Blonye Garden

Heroes Memory Public Garden

Lopatinsky Garden

Peter and Paul church

Dnieper Gate

Dnieper river embankment

Flenovo estate

Khmelita estate