Katyn in Russia
Thursday, 13 July 2023 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Russia / Russland General
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Katyn memorial © panoramio.com – Vlad Shtelts/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Katyn is a
rural locality (a
selo ) in
Smolensky District of
Smolensk Oblast ,
Russia , located approximately 20 kilometers (12 mi) to the west of
Smolensk , the
administrative center of the
oblast . The village had a population of 1,737 in 2007.
It is situated to the west of the city of Smolensk (about 18 km from its center) and circa 60 km from the Russian borders with Belarus . It has a station on the Berlin –Warsaw –Minsk –Moscow international railway line.
Memorial at the site of the Katyn massacre © Goku122/cc-by-sa-3.0
Before
World War I ,
Gnezdovo with the Katyn Forest belonged to the Koźliński family. In the 19th century, Piotr Koźliński married Leokadia Lefftreu, the daughter of the director of the English railway construction company in Russia. Under the marriage articles Gniezdovo and Katyn became co-owned by the British.
The Katyn Forest, in the vicinity of the village, was the site of the
Katyn massacre during
World War II , in which thousands of captured
Polish officers and other citizens were killed. On 5 March 1940,
Stalin approved, together with Voroshilov, Mikoyan and Molotov, a proposal from Beria that lead to the assassination of 21,857 Poles (
Katyn war cemetery ).
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