What the records say
- When
- 1937
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 16,573
- Coordinates
- 65.00° N, 90.00° E
- Description
- Mass arrests and executions of Latvians in the USSR, 1937-38
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Latvian Operation of the NKVD
Mass arrests and executions of Latvians in the USSR, 1937-38
The Latvian Operation was a national operation of the NKVD against ethnic Latvians, Latvian nationals and persons otherwise affiliated with Latvia and/or Latvians in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938 during the period of the Great Purge.
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