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District in Moscow, Russia

Yuzhnoye Butovo District
District
Street scene, Yuzhnoye Butovo District
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Location of Yuzhnoye Butovo District on the map of Moscow
Coordinates: 55°31′22.62″N 37°33′2.09″E / 55.5229500°N 37.5505806°E / 55.5229500; 37.5505806
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Moscow
Area
• Total	27 km (10 sq mi)
Population
• Estimate	207,903
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK )
OKTMO ID	45909000
Website	http://ubutovo.mos.ru/

Yuzhnoye Butovo District (Southern Butovo, Russian: Ю́жное Бу́тово) is the biggest residential district in South-Western Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. The district's history dates back to 1612, and it is named after a Don Cossack Butov. The area of the district is 27 square kilometres (10 sq mi). The population (July 2016) was 207,903.

Butovo memorial

Main article: Butovo firing range

Situated approximately 27 km south-east of Moscow, Butovo is the site of the Butovo firing range, a mass grave dating from the "Great Purge" of the 1930s. In excess of 20,000 people were shot and buried there from August 1937 to October 1938 . It has become a shrine to Joseph Stalin's victims and has an Orthodox church on the grounds.

References

^ "General Information" (in Russian). Yuzhnoye Butovo District. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

External links

Media related to Yuzhnoye Butovo District at Wikimedia Commons

55°32′46″N 37°32′39″E / 55.54611°N 37.54417°E / 55.54611; 37.54417

v t e Administrative divisions of Moscow
Central Administrative Okrug	Arbat Basmanny Khamovniki Krasnoselsky Meshchansky Presnensky Tagansky Tverskoy Yakimanka Zamoskvorechye
Northern Administrative Okrug	Aeroport Begovoy Beskudnikovsky Dmitrovsky Golovinsky Khoroshyovsky Khovrino Koptevo Levoberezhny Molzhaninovsky Savyolovsky Sokol Timiryazevsky Vostochnoye Degunino Voykovsky Zapadnoye Degunino
North-Eastern Administrative Okrug	Alexeyevsky Altufyevsky Babushkinsky Bibirevo Butyrsky Lianozovo Losinoostrovsky Marfino Maryina Roshcha Ostankinsky Otradnoye Rostokino Severnoye Medvedkovo Severny Sviblovo Yaroslavsky Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo
Eastern Administrative Okrug	Bogorodskoye Golyanovo Ivanovskoye Izmaylovo Kosino-Ukhtomsky Metrogorodok Novogireyevo Novokosino Perovo Preobrazhenskoye Severnoye Izmaylovo Sokolinaya Gora Sokolniki Veshnyaki Vostochnoye Izmaylovo Vostochny
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug	Kapotnya Kuzminki Lefortovo Lyublino Maryino Nekrasovka Nizhegorodsky Pechatniki Ryazansky Tekstilshchiki Vykhino-Zhulebino Yuzhnoportovy
Southern Administrative Okrug	Biryulyovo Vostochnoye Biryulyovo Zapadnoye Brateyevo Chertanovo Severnoye Chertanovo Tsentralnoye Chertanovo Yuzhnoye Danilovsky Donskoy Moskvorechye-Saburovo Nagatino-Sadovniki Nagatinsky Zaton Nagorny Orekhovo-Borisovo Severnoye Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye Tsaritsyno Zyablikovo
South-Western Administrative Okrug	Akademichesky Cheryomushki Gagarinsky Konkovo Kotlovka Lomonosovsky Obruchevsky Severnoye Butovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Yuzhnoye Butovo Zyuzino
Western Administrative Okrug	Dorogomilovo Filyovsky Park Fili-Davydkovo Krylatskoye Kuntsevo Mozhaysky Novo-Peredelkino Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye Prospekt Vernadskogo Ramenki Solntsevo Troparyovo-Nikulino
North-Western Administrative Okrug	Khoroshyovo-Mnyovniki Kurkino Mitino Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo Severnoye Tushino Shchukino Strogino Yuzhnoye Tushino
Zelenogradsky Administrative Okrug	Kryukovo Matushkino Savyolki Silino Staroye Kryukovo
Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug	Filimonkovsky Kommunarka Vnukovo Shcherbinka
Troitsky Administrative Okrug	Bekasovo Krasnopakhorsky Troitsk Voronovo

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