Labinskaya

Before the Russian Revolution, the village of Labinskaya, along with the rest of the Labinsk County, had lain outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement, and it was also a former Tsarist military outpost. For these reasons, the village was home to very few Jews, even after the Revolution. In 1939, only twenty-seven Jews lived there.

However, in the aftermath of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Labinskaya came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, and many Jews tried to reach it. German troops occupied the town on August 7, 1942.

Two days later, the Germans announced an obligatory registration of the population. The town's Jews were ordered to wear a yellow star. In several operations carried out between August and September 1942, the Germans and the auxiliary policemen murdered around 300 Jews in the Labinskaya Area, apparently, a number of them were shot at the local airfield.

The Red Army liberated Labinskaya on January 22, 1943.