Komzetovka

The Tartar village of Quruvly-Kenegez had existed from the period of the Crimean Khanate (15th-18th centuries) but by the 20th century it was deserted. In 1927 Jewish agricultural settlers came to live there and the village was named Komzetovka, from "Komzet" (the abbreviation of the Russian name of the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land), a Soviet organization promoting Jewish agricultural settlement in Ukraine, Belarus, and Crimea. There was a kolkhoz in Komzetovka in the 1920s and 1930s. Almost all the Jewish inhabitants of Komzetovka left before the arrival of German troops. Six Jews who remained in the village, 4 women and two children, were murdered on March 13, 1942 in a stone quarry. According to some local inhabitants, these Jews of Komzetovka were murdered and buried at the place where the Versayevo school is now located. An eldery Jew committed suicide. Komzetovka and the region were liberated by the Red Army in April 1944. In 1948 the village's name was changed to Veresayevo.