Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev Юрий Алексеевич Дмитриев is a local historian and activist in Karelia. Since the early 1990s, he has worked to locate the execution sites of Stalin's Great Terror in Karelia and, through work in the archives, to identify as many as possible of the buried victims they contain.
He has worked continually since the late 1980s to compile "Books of Remembrance" for Karelia, listing all the names of those executed there.
