Kashak
Kashtak ( Russian Каштак , Turkish for winter mountain ) is a hill and a historic district of the Siberian city of Tomsk in Russia .
The area north of the city center, which is not clearly delineated, today largely belongs to the Leninski rajon , one of the four city districts, and to a small extent to the east adjoining Oktjabrski rajon. From the 1970s onwards, the four prefabricated housing estates (also called “microrajons” in Russian) Kashak-1 to Kashak-4 were built there. Today around 50,000 people live there, almost a tenth of the city's population.
In Kashak there are mass graves comparable to Butowo or Kommunarka near Moscow , in which the bodies of 15,000 to 40,000 victims of Stalinist repression are suspected. In autumn 1937, for example, the writer Nikolai Kljujew , the philosopher Gustav Speth and several bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church were shot in Tomsk . The historian Boris Trenin was banned from researching the secret archives on Kashtak under Vladimir Putin .
Web links
- New York Times : Nationalism of Putin's Era Veils Sins of Stalin’s
- http://www.requiem.ru/news/2002/10/03/tomsk/print.phtml (Russian)
Coordinates: 56 ° 31 ' N , 84 ° 59' E