Piatykhatky
In Piatykhatky, a wooded area north of Kharkov, about 8000 Ukrainian nationalists and Polish officers are buried. The Polish officers had been imprisoned in Starobilsk before being executed in the NKVD prison in Kharkov and then buried in Piatykhatky. These Polish officers were part of the order signed by Stalin and the Politburo in March 1940 to murder about 22,000 Polish officers, better known as the Katyn massacre.
Current status: Monument (2011).
Location: 50° 4' 50 N 36° 15' 45 E
Get there: Car.
Follow up in books: Urban, Thomas: The Katyn Massacre 1940: History of a Crime (2022).
Like Bykivnia outside Kiev, Piatykhatky has not received any attention or recognition in the same way as the much more famous Katyn. Remains of Polish victims are still being found and the list of Polish buried in Piatykhatky is being supplemented. The memorial is very well maintained and is located inside a small grove of woods next to a main road.