The Butovo Firing Range or Butovo Shooting Range was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953."Butovo mass burial site", Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag Its use for mass execution has been documented;"Butovo: mass burial of the executed", Russia's Necropolis it was prepared as a site for mass burial.