In Moscow, on Yalzkaya Street, not far from hospital No. 23 (located near the Taganka Theatre), there is a square to which the murdered victims of the NKVD were brought and secretly buried between 1921 and 1926. According to data collected by one of the editors of the magazine Rossiyan, 969 people were buried here. Among the victims were representatives of many nationalities, including Poles, Germans, English, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Jews, Finns, Chinese, Indians, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Georgians, Uzbeks. The names of only four Poles were established, they were: Henryk Bierktling-Pietkevich son of Karol (also appeared under the name Konstanty Stanislavovich), Aleksander Mitkevich son of Andrew, Jakub Wolanowski son of Mikhail (also known as Tenenbaum Izrael Nutov-Gershevich) and Mikhail Kuchta son of Ivan (also appeared as Markun Ivan Yosifovich). Under the RSFSR Act of 18 X 1991. "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression", they were all officially rehabilitated.
On 21.10.1999, on the initiative of the Sakharov Association, a memorial in the form of a boulder was erected in the above-mentioned square with money donated by one of the former prisoners of the GULAG. A large plaque was attached to the boulder with many of the names of the victims; Poles were listed among them.

Compiled by T. Zachara / MKiDN, VIII 2025