• Sandarmokh was opened with support of the government, Yuri Dmitriev worked with support of the government, and Karelia can become an example for other...
  • Today Sandarmokh is a memorial to the crimes of Stalin and his regime and since 1998 has been the focus of an international Day of Remembrance on 5 August...
  • In 2007, a group of Polish students from Cracow placed a small cross at the base of the Catholic Memorial Cross in Sandarmokh.
  • According to documents placed within the FSB information in Arkhangelsk, there had been human beings of 58 nationalities among those shot at Sandarmokh.
  • There is no single, typologically recognisable monument in Sandarmokh, and no wall where the names of the dead are inscribed.