Katyn Memorial Complex

The complex, which opened on July 28, 2000, consists of two parts: the territory where more than 8,000 residents of Smolensk who became victims of political repressions are buried, and the military cemetery where more than 4,000 Polish prisoners of war were buried, shot in the spring of 1940.

In 2018, a large-scale reconstruction of the complex was carried out. In the Pavilion of the main entrance and the new building of the museum and exhibition center, expositions “Preserved Memory” and “Russia and Poland” are open. XX century. Pages of history”. In the “Valley of Death” – the part of the Memorial where mass graves of Soviet citizens are located – a sculptural composition created by the People’s Artist of Russia A.N. Kovalchuk, including the monument “Shooting” and the Wall of Memory, on which the residents of the Smolensk region shot in the course of political repressions are immortalized by name.