Communal grave of unclaimed ashes number one, where people executed by the NKVD were secretly buried from 1930 to 1942, at the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It is believed the mass grave contains the remains of 4259 victims of Stalin's regime. Plaques with the names are installed by the relatives since the 1980s.

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