Izobilnoye

Izobilnoye County was part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which before the Russian Revolution was outside the Pale of Settlement. In 1939 the 15 Jews who lived in the village of Izobilnoye comprised less than one percent of the entire population. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, Ordzhonikidze Kray District became a destination of civilian evacuation or flight. Many of the refugees were Jews from Ukraine and Belorussia. With its summer offensive in June 28, 1942, the German forces headed toward the Caucasus, entering Izobilnoye on August 3, 1942. During the occupation the Germans killed members of the local Jewish population, as well as Jewish refugees from the western territories of the Soviet Union. A total of 87 Jews were murdered in the village. The Red Army liberated Izobilnoye on January 21, 1943.