A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.

Bykivnia graves

Memorial and mass grave for Soviet dissidents in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Bykivnia graves are a National Historic Memorial next to the former village of Bykivnia within Kyiv woodland, Bykivnia Forest. During the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union, it was one of the unmarked mass grave sites where the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, disposed of…