Evidence of Chekists of the NKVD taking their pound of flesh.
[KavkazUzel] Builders found on the beach in Makhachkala the remains of people buried, presumably in the 1930s, investigators said.
Human remains were found on a beach in Dagestan during construction work, a spokesman for the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs said. "The police received a message about a burial discovered during construction work. The information will be sent to the departments concerned," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying today.
An employee of the press service of the Dagestan department of the TFR confirmed that an inspection had begun. "Preliminarily, the remains of the 30s of the XX century," the agency quotes the words of a representative of the TFR.
The message that human bones were found on the Jami beach on the shore of the Caspian Sea near Makhachkala was published today by the Telegram channel Baza.
"A mass grave was found in Dagestan. Holes are visible in some skulls. 18 skeletons were found in the area of ​​the Jami Hotel between Makhachkala and Kaspiysk. The remains were found during construction work. Police and investigators are working on the site," the publication says.
According to the Yandex.Maps service, the Jami Hotel is located in the Leninsky district of Makhachkala, about a kilometer from Kaspiysk.