Turkinskiy

Since the Beloglinsky County had lain outside the Pale of Settlement in pre-Revolutionary Russia, only a few Jews lived there on the eve of World War II. However, following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, the town came to house a large number of civilian evacuees from Ukraine, including many Jews. German troops occupied Turkinskiy (Turkin) on August 15, 1942. During the occupation period, in November 1942, the Germans killed forty-seven Jewish evacuees from Odessa at the Turkinskiy collective farm. The Red Army liberated Turkinskiy on December 31, 1943.