Communal grave of unclaimed ashes number three, where people executed by the NKVD were secretly buried from 1945 to 1953, at the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It is believed the mass grave contains the remains of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Japanese prisoners of war, Cossack atamans Pyotr Krasnov and Andrei Shkuro, as well of the remains of the military leaders of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) during World War II, include generals Andrey Vlasov, Fyodor Truhin and Sergei Bunyachenko executed in 1946. Remains of the notorious chief of the Soviet secret police Lav


Communal grave of unclaimed ashes number three, where people executed by the NKVD were secretly buried from 1945 to 1953, at the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia. It is believed the mass grave contains the remains of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Japanese prisoners of war, Cossack atamans Pyotr Krasnov and Andrei Shkuro, as well of the remains of the military leaders of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) during World War II, include generals Andrey Vlasov, Fyodor Truhin and Sergei Bunyachenko executed in 1946. Remains of the notorious chief of the Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Beria who was executed in 1953 are probably also buried here.


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