Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions

Solovetsky Stone. Monument commemorating the victims of political repression in the USSR: a stone from Solovki concentration camp installed in front of the KGB headquarters at Lubyanka Square in Moscow

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (Russian: День памяти жертв политических репрессий), is an annual day of remembrance for victims of political repression in the Soviet Union.

It has been commemorated on October 30, since 1991, in former Soviet republics, except for Ukraine, which has its own annual Day of Remembrance for the victims of political repressions by the Soviet regime on the third Sunday of May. In 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Russia officially established 30 October as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions.^[1][2] This day is also officially a public holiday in the Russian Federation.

The commemoration is held on the date of the former Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR, an initiative by imprisoned Soviet dissidents for the recognition of inmates' status as political prisoners.^[3][4]

Members of the Memorial society take active part in meetings.

Traditional meeting places

• Moscow
  • Lubyanka Square, at the location of the Solovetsky Stone from Solovki Special Purpose Camp
• Saint Petersburg
  • Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
• Tyumen
  • Courtyard of the former NKVD building
• Perm (Perm Region)
  • Perm-36 Kuchino village, Chusovoy district.
  • Memorial of the Victims of Political Repressions in Yagoshikha necropol, Perm.
• Yekaterinburg
  • Memorial of the Victims of Political Repressions
• Samara, Russia
  • Gagarin Park

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