Kolpashevsky Yar
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Kolpashevsky Yar is a high steep bank of the Ob River in the city of Kolpashevo, Tomsk Region, Russia. It is known mainly as the place of mass graves of people who were shot or died in the NKVD prison in the Narym district in the 1930s - 1940s. According to the Memorial society, the total number of
people buried in the Kolpashevsky Yar is about 4000 people. The burials were accidentally opened in late April - early May 1979, when the spring flood of the Ob River washed the banks and exposed one of them, but soon the remains and signs of the burials were eliminated. In 1992, a memorial sign about the intention to erect a monument to the victims was installed at the burial site.
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