Urozhaynoye

In 1939 the village of Urozhaynoye, along with all of Levokumsky County, was part of the Ordzhonikidze Kray District, which before the Russian Revolution was outside the Pale of Settlement. As a consequence, no Jews lived in this area before the Soviet-German War. However, with the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Kray District became an area of civilian evacuation, including of many Jews from Ukraine and Belorussia. With the summer offensive of the German military at the end of June 1942, the Germans began their invasion of the Northern Caucasus. The Wehrmacht occupied Urozhaynoye in August 1942. 30 Jews were shot to death on September 14, 1942, by local police forces at a bridge in the south of the village. The Red Army liberated Urozhaynoye on January 10, 1943.