Palagiada

The Voroshilovskoye County was part of the Ordzhonikidze District, which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Thus, there were no Jews living in this area prior to the Soviet-German War.

However, in the wake of the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the Ordzhonikidze District came to house a large number of civilian evacuees, including many Jews from Ukraine, Bessarabia (present-day Moldova), and Belarus.

With the beginning of the German summer offensive in late June 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus.

German troops occupied Palagiada in early August 1942.

The mobile killing squads arrived in the wake of the Wehrmacht on September 17, 1942. On the same day, they murdered six civilians, five of whom were Jews, on the bank of the lower channel of the Khla River.

The Red Army liberated Palagiada in late January 1943.