Vostochny

The village of Vostochny and the Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye 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 the village in 1939. 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 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 Vostochny in the middle of August 1942. On September 8, 1942, the German military executed eleven Jewish evacuees in a silo pit in the area of the Borets collective farm. The Red Army liberated Vostochny in early January 1943.