Novo Zavedenskoye

In 1939, the village of Novo Zavedenskoye (Novozavedennoye) and the Soldatsko–Aleksandrovsky County were 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, Belarus, Bessarabia, and Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg). The majority of the evacuees who came to Novo Zavedenskoye were Jews from Leningrad.

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

German troops occupied Novo Zavedenskoye on August 21, 1942.

On August 26, 1942, the Germans ordered a registration of the Jewish evacuees, to be carried out on the same day. The majority of the Jews in the village assembled for the registration. They were taken to the trenches at the railroad tracks, and shot dead there.

According to Soviet sources, there were more than 100 victims.

Between September 11-15, 1942, and on December 15 that year, some hidden Jews were executed at the trenches near the railroad tracks.

The Red Army liberated Novo Zavedenskoye on January 9, 1943.