Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev ( born 1956 in Petrozavodsk ) is a rights activist and local historian in Karelia ( Northwest Russia ) . Since the early 1990s , he has worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin 's Great Terror and identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain . As a result of his single-minded commitment , Karelia 's past is better documented in this respect than almost any other part of the Russian Federation
Great Terror
Great Purge
Yury A. Dmitriev