Worth a Detour
Kurapaty
A pine forest on the city's edge where Stalin's secret police shot and buried thousands of people.
US travel advisory: Level 4, Do Not Travel · checked 2026-11-03- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Kurapaty, northern edge of MinskDirections
- Getting There
- About 25 minutes by taxi north of the center.
Why Go
From 1937 to 1941, the NKVD brought victims of the purges here at night and buried them in pits among the trees. Discovered in 1988, the site is marked by hundreds of wooden crosses put up by volunteers.
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