Kommunarka Explained

En Name:Kommunarka
Ru Name:Russian: Коммунарка
Federal Subject:Moscow
Inhabloc Cat:Urban-type settlement
Pop 2010Census:5223
Pop Density Ref:-->
Date:December 2017

Kommunarka is an urban-type settlement (posyolok) in Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. The Kommunarka (Sokolnicheskaya line) station opened in 2019.

History

A mass burial site of the late 1930s, known as the Kommunarka shooting ground or "firing range". is also located in the area. Most of the defendants at the third and last Moscow Show Trial (March 1938) are buried there.