Mednoye

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Miednoye is a village near Pskov, Russia (formerly Soviet Union).

During World War II a NKVD mass murder site. Between April 3 and April 19, 1940, 6311 Polish officers from the Ostashkov POW camp were brought to the area of Miednoye and subsequently shot to death during the Katyn massacre.

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