BBC, 6 August 2007: 'A giant cross commemorating the victims of Stalin's terror 70 years after the worst of the purges has reached Moscow after a journey from northern Russia.
It was taken by boat from the Solovetsky Islands, site of a prison camp, and will be erected at a former execution ground outside the capital.
An estimated 20,000 people, 1,000 of them [Orthodox] Christians, were executed at the Butovo range between 1937 and 1938.
The Siberian cedar cross is 12.5m (41 feet) high and 7.6m (25 feet) wide'.
The Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers took part in river Orthodox religious procession with Memorial Cross.
'Russia' channel, 06.08.2007.
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