Larindorf

Larindorf (Yiddish for "Larin's village," after the Soviet Jewish economist who headed the Society for the Settlement of Jewish Toilers on the Land, and was one of the chief promoters of Jewish agricultural colonization in Crimea) was probably founded in the late 1920s as a farming settlement, with the support of the American Agro-Joint organization. In 1935, Larindorf was incorporated into a new Jewish ethnic county that bore the same name. The village was the seat of a Jewish rural council, and it had a Jewish high school. In 1937, a new Jewish cultural center was built there. In 1939, Larindorf was home to 140 Jews. The village was occupied by German troops on October 1, 1941. Apparently in the late fall of 1941, the Jews who still resided in the village (having finished their seasonal agricultural work) were shot dead and thrown into a well on a nearby farmstead. Larindorf was liberated by the Red Army on April 12, 1944, and then renamed Krestyanovka. That same year, the Larindorf Jewish County was renamed the Pervomayskiy County.