Yuzhnoye Butovo District

District in Moscow, Russia

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Coordinates: 55°31′22.62″N 37°33′2.09″E / 55.5229500°N 37.5505806°E / 55.5229500; 37.5505806CountryRussiaFederal subjectMoscowArea

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• Total27 km² (10 sq mi)Population

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(2018)^[2]

207,967Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK

^[3])OKTMO ID45909000Websitehttp://ubutovo.mos.ru/

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 27 square kilometres (10 sq mi).^[1] The population (July 2016) was 207,903.

Butovo memorial

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 [1]. It has become a shrine to Joseph Stalin's victims and has an Orthodox church on the grounds.

References

^ ^a ^b "General Information" (in Russian). Yuzhnoye Butovo District. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
^ "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.