Kyiv-Bykivnia Polish War Cemetery
Also known as Polski Cmentarz Wojenny w Kijowie-Bykowni , Polsko-Ukraiński Cmentarz Wojenny w Kijowie-Bykowni
Kyiv, Pecherskyi raion, City of Kyiv, Ukraine
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Add PhotosThe Kyiv-Bykivnia Polish War Cemetery holds the remains of 3,435 Polish citizens, victims of the Katyń Massacre committed by the Soviet regime in 1940 and ordered personally by such chief criminals of that times as chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), Lavrentiy Beria, and Josif Stalin.
The names Poles buried in unnamed mass graves at the Kyiv-Bykivnia Polish War Cemetery are included in the so-called Ukrainian Katyn List. It is the fourth Katyn cemetery, along the cemetery in the Katyn Forest (cf. Katyn Forest Massacre Site of 1940 on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2236382), the cemetery in Miednoye (Mednoye Polish War Cemetery on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2790658), and the cemetery in Kharkov (cf. Kharkov Polish War Cemetery on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2477428) opened in 2000.
The Kyiv-Bykivnia Polish War Cemetery holds the remains of 3,435 Polish citizens, victims of the Katyń Massacre committed by the Soviet regime in 1940 and ordered personally by such chief criminals of that times as chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), Lavrentiy Beria, and Josif Stalin.
The names Poles buried in unnamed mass graves at the Kyiv-Bykivnia Polish War Cemetery are included in the so-called Ukrainian Katyn List. It is the fourth Katyn cemetery, along the cemetery in the Katyn Forest (cf. Katyn Forest Massacre Site of 1940 on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2236382), the cemetery in Miednoye (Mednoye Polish War Cemetery on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2790658), and the cemetery in Kharkov (cf. Kharkov Polish War Cemetery on findagrave, Cemetery ID: 2477428) opened in 2000.
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- Percent photographed63%
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- Total memorials6
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Kyiv, Pecherskyi raion, City of Kyiv, Ukraine
- Total memorials6
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS100%
- Added: 31 May 2017
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2642995
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