The Soviets are said to have discovered 34 grave-pits, some of them measuring as much as in length and three to four meters (9.8–13 ft) in depth, located in the Blagovshchina Forest some from the Minsk–Mogilev highway, according to the special report prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the 1940s. A great number of Soviet soldiers, citizens and partisans were killed, but the exact number remains unknown. Estimates range from 80,000 to more than 330,000.