| En Name: | Yuzhnoye Butovo District |
| Image View: | Южное Бутово (61).JPG |
| Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Butovo South (municipality in Moscow).png |
| Federal Subject: | Moscow |
| Area Km2: | 27 |
| Pop Latest: | 207903 |
| Pop Latest Date: | 2016 |
| Website: | http://ubutovo.mos.ru/ |
| Date: | August 2011 |
Yuzhnoye Butovo District (Southern Butovo, Russian: Ю́жное Бу́тово) is the biggest residential district in South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. The district's history dates back to 1612, and it is named after a Don Cossack Butov. The area of the district is 27km2.[1] The population (July 2016) was 207,903.
See main article: Butovo firing range.
Situated approximately 27 km south-east of Moscow, Butovo is the site of the Butovo firing range, a mass grave dating from the "Great Purge" of the 1930s. In excess of 20,000 people were shot and buried there from August 1937 to October 1938 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/world/europe/08butovo.html. It has become a shrine to Joseph Stalin's victims and has an Orthodox church on the grounds.