Borgustanskaya

In 1939, the village of Borgustanskaya and the Suvorovsky County were part of the Ordzhonikidze Krai, which had lain outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement prior to the Russian Revolution. For this reason, no Jews lived in the 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 Borgustanskaya in the first days of August 1942. On August 26, 1942, German soldiers executed 170 Jews in the area of the Bolshevik collective farm. The Red Army liberated Borgustanskaya in January 1943.