Kadino

In 1832 the Jewish population of Kadino comprised 1,335 people or 27 percent of the town's total population. In 1919 a Yiddish school for 150 pupils was opened in the town but in 1938 within the framework of Soviet ethnic policy, it was reorganized into a Russian one. In the late 1920s - early 1930s Kadino had a Jewish rural council. In 1936 a Jewish kolkhoz named "May 1" was organized in the vicinity of the town. Kadino was occupied by German troops in July 1941. The Jews were put into a fenced enclosure on one of the town streets. From there they were sent to perform various kinds of forced labor. In the fall of 1941 the Jews of Kadino were shot in the vicinity of the town. Kadino was liberated by the Red Army in the spring of 1943.