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Salina, Solianuvatka

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Salina, Solianuvatka

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The salt mine into which the NKVD threw over three and a half thousand murdered prisoners on 22–26 June 1941.

In June 1941, as they retreated, the NKVD organs shot prisoners from Dobromyl and Przemysl, finished them off with wooden salt mallets and threw them into a mine up to a hundred metres deep; on 26 June residents discovered the bodies — on the first day 912 bodies were raised from the fourth shaft. Estimates of the victims: over 3,500 according to Lokalna Istoriia, 3,600–3,700 according to Lviv Regional Council; in the first two weeks of the war the NKVD killed about 21–22 thousand prisoners in the prisons of Western Ukraine. No exhumations or identification were carried out: in 1941 some of the bodies were reburied in a common grave by the mine, and in the 1950s–1986 a sanatorium and a boarding school operated on the site. In 1996 a monument was erected — a figure rising from the depths of the mine with arms raised to the sky; by the collapsed shaft stands a cross.

The tract is open around the clock, with no operating institution. A monument of local significance; memorial events every year in late June. The coordinate is the monument itself, on the edge of the village.

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