 Thus, on August 7, 2001, President Alexander Lukashenko ordered its reconstruction, with the completion due by November 2002.The decision was met with controversy as the route passed through Kurapaty, north of Minsk, site of a mass grave of victims of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, during the Great Purge of 1937-1941.Estimates of those murdered there range into the hundreds of thousands, but the site has not been properly investigated or bodies exhumed.