Maryinskaya

In 1939, the village of Marinskaya and the Apollonsky County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, which had lain outside the Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. Thus, no Jews lived in this area before World War II. However, in the wake of 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 Ukraine and Belarus. With the beginning of the German summer offensive in late June 1942, the Wehrmacht launched its invasion of the North Caucasus. The German army occupied Marinskaya in August 1942. During the occupation, the Germans arrested numerous Jewish and non-Jewish civilians. 63 civilians were murdered in December 1942; two of them could be identified as Jews. The Red Army liberated Marinskaya in January 1943.