Starodubskoye

In 1939 the village of Starodubskoye, along with all of Arkhangelskoye County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District. Before the Russian Revolution this area was outside the Pale of Settlement. As a consequence no Jews lived there before the Soviet-German war.

However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Kray District became a destination of civilian evacuation or flight, including of many Jews from Ukraine and Belorussia. With the summer offensive of the German forces there began the German entry into the Northern Caucaus. The Jews were ordered to appear in the center of the village at 8 a.m. on September 4, 1942. The approximately 70 Jews who assembled there were taken east of the village, where they were murdered in a ditch by German soldiers.

The Red Army liberated Starodubskoye on January 9, 1943.