In Moscow, on Yalskaya Street, not far from Hospital No. 23 (located near the Taganka Theatre), there is a square to which the victims murdered by the NKVD were brought between 1921 and 1926 and secretly buried there. According to data compiled by one of the editors of the magazine *Rossijanie*, 969 people were buried here. The victims included representatives of many nationalities, including Poles, Germans, English, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Jews, Finns, Chinese, Indians, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Georgians and Uzbeks.

The names of only four Poles have been identified: Henryk Bierktling-Pietkiewicz, son of Karol (also known as Konstanty Stanisławowicz), Aleksander Mitkiewicz, son of Andrzej; Jakub Wolanowski, son of Michał (also known as Tenenbaum Izrael Nutow-Gerszewicz); and Michał Kuchta, son of Ivan (who also went by the name Markun Ivan Josifowicz). Pursuant to the RSFSR Act of 18 October 1991 ‘On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression’, all of them were officially rehabilitated.

On 21 October 1999, on the initiative of the Sakharov Association and with funds donated by a former Gulag prisoner, a monument in the form of a boulder was erected in the aforementioned square. A large plaque bearing the names of many of the victims was affixed to the boulder; among them were Poles.