Letnyaya Stavka

In 1939, the village of Letnyaya Stavka and the Turkmenskoye County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, which had lain outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Therefore, no Jews lived in this area before the Second World War. However, following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze Krai came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews from Soviet Ukraine and Belarus. With the beginning of the German summer offensive in late June 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus, occupying Letnyaya Stavka in August 1942. After occupying the village, the German military began to search the area for Jews. In September 1942, 156 Jewish evacuees were murdered in the forests around Letnyaya Stavka. The Red Army liberated Letnyaya Stavka on January 11, 1943.