Maksim Gorkiy

Maxim Gorki was the name of a Jewish kolkhoz established in the 1920s. Many of its Jews succeded in escaping before the arrival of the Germans. Apparently between 80 and 90 Jews remained. On January 21 or 22, 1942 Jews from Maxim Gorki, Kalininskoye, and Pervomaiskoye were murdered in a gas van and their bodies thrown into a well near the village of Krasnoye. The Maxim Gorki collective farm no longer exists.