[ noun ] a city in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in World War II <noun.location>
Relatives and families of the executed Polish officers will, under new rules, be allowed to visit the memorial, the broadcast quoted Smolensk regional official Alexei Orlov as saying.
The Soviet news agency said work is being halted on two new reactors in Smolensk and Kursk in central Russia that use the same graphite-core design as the Chernobyl plant in the Ukraine, Tass said.
While scores of Poles lighted candles and laid flowers on the graves of friends and family members, hundreds of others gathered around a granite monument to Polish officers murdered in the Katyn forest near the Soviet city of Smolensk.
Moscow's Smolensk Cargo Depot was piled high with containers Sunday afternoon, including some shipped from West Germany nearly five weeks ago and one sent from Hungary in June.
Mazowiecki was accompanied by Soviet Vice Minister Nikolai Larionov during the daylong visit to Zagorsk, Smolensk and finally Katyn.
"There is no Katyn near Smolensk.
The officers, the cream of Polish society called up from the reserves and interned by the Soviets shortly after the outbreak of the war, were shot in the back of the head and dumped in mass graves in Katyn, near the Soviet city of Smolensk.
A mass grave in the Katyn forest near Smolensk was discovered in 1943.
About 4,000 officers, the cream of Polish society called up from the reserves and interned by the Soviets shortly after the outbreak of the war, were shot in the back of the head and dumped in mass graves in Katyn, near the Soviet city of Smolensk.