Nazi crimes in the Smolensk region

This is a list of villages in the Smolensk region burned with people. The list is far from complete, but giving an idea of ​​what was happening then. Compiled on the basis of data from the Smolensk regional center of heroic-patriotic youth education . In total, in the Smolensk region during the occupation, more than 300 villages were destroyed along with the inhabitants. Without residents or partially with residents - about 5,000 villages. During the war, one out of every three residents of the Smolensk region died. The pre-war population has not been restored so far.

Vyazemsky district.

The village of Debrevo. On January 13, 1942, the Germans discovered an underground hospital in a local school. Those wounded who could move were shot in a ravine near the village. The rest were left at the school, whose doors were hammered and set on fire. A total of 67 people were shot and burned.
The village of Pastih. In early February 1942, more than 30 villagers were executed. The village is burned.
The village of Pekarevo. On February 5, 1942, the punishers completely burned down the village, which consisted of 26 yards, together with the inhabitants. 2 people survived.
The village of Nikolskoye. There was an underground hospital in the village. In March 1942, punishers hanged and burned 26 captured guerrillas (most of them wounded). 10 local residents were shot for contact with partisans. The village is burned.
The village of Krutitsy of the Isakovsky Village Council. Before the war, there was a house for the disabled. They did not have time to evacuate it. In addition, its number has increased significantly due to refugees from the western regions of the region (mainly women and children) and the wounded. On July 14, 1942, punishers cordoned off his territory and set fire to the buildings. Weak people, unable to move independently, died in a fire. The rest were shot on the street, near the silo. First, children were shot, in front of their mothers, then adults. Killed, according to various sources, from 130 to 200 people.
Village Chertkovka. On March 7, 1943, during the retreat, the Nazis shot and burned here 480 residents of this and the surrounding villages.
Gavrilki village. On March 8, 1943, during the retreat, it was completely burnt along with the inhabitants. More than 180 people died in the fire. 3 people survived.
Sand Village (near Vyazma). On the night of March 11 to 12, before the retreat, the Nazis burned 135 people in the Sandbox, mostly women and children.

Gagarinsky district.

In March 1943, they were completely burned along with people:

The village of Drachevo (over 200 people from the villages of Drachevo, Zlobino, Astakhovo, Mishino).
The village of Kulikovo (62 people).
The village of Tararykino (the death toll is unknown).
The village of Fedyaevo (the death toll is unknown).
The village of Kolesniki (the death toll is unknown).

Glinkovsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Lyakhovo Village - April 14, 1943 384 people were killed.
Shilovo Village - March 27, 1943 112 people were killed.
Monchino Village - 1942. About 300 people died.

Demidovsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Gorodnaya Village - October 1942 Killed 169 people.
Orlovo Village - 1942. About 120 people were killed.
The villages of Vlazhkino and Kruteli - November 1942. About 250 people were killed.
Varnavino Village - October 1942. 59 people were killed.
The villages of Senovka and Kamenka - 1943. 117 people were killed.
The villages of Ivchenko, Ratka, Drozdy, Kozino - 1942 Killed about 700 people.
Zalnevo and Green Wasteland villages - 1942. 201 people were killed.
Bulyzha Village - 1942. 20 people were killed.

Dorogobuzh district.

In the village of Martinkovo, out of 150 inhabitants, 47 were shot. The village was burned.

Dukhovschinsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Golovitsy Village - October 18, 1942 96 local residents and refugees were killed, the number of which was not established. In total, more than 100 people.
Snorki Village - October 18, 1942 70 people were killed.
Nikulinka Village - March 25, 1943 More than 120 people were killed.
Bratki Village - October 14, 1942 16 people were killed.
Titov Khutor Village - May 29, 1942 74 people were killed.
Novoselki Village - March 6, 1942 22 people were killed.
Koshelevo Village - March 18, 1942 The death toll has not been established.
Kishkinitsa village - spring 1942. More than 70 people were killed.

Elninsky district.

The village of Peryatino was completely burned along with residents on April 27, 1942. Of the 33 residents, 23 were killed.

Yershichsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Sokolovschina village (35 people died).
The village of Dranaya (25 people died).
The village of Kuzmichi.

Krasninsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

The village of Fomino (killing 72 people).
New Village (all Jewish population destroyed).
Village Kobelyak (killing 80 people).
Makruha village (8 people died).

Rudnyansky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Markovo village (92 people died).
The village of Sharino (98 people died).
The village of Borisenki (22 people died).
Safonovsky district.

Zalaznya Village - January 23, 1943 450 inhabitants were brutally destroyed (many children were very tortured there before being killed). The village is burned.
Leonidovo Village - January 29, 1943. The entire population of 256 people was exterminated. The village is burned.
Kurdyumovo village - 25 paratroopers of the 8th Air Force brigade and the entire male population who were at that time in the village (14 people) were shot. The village is burned.
Maksimovo Village - March 16, 1943 56 people were killed. The village is burned.

Smolensky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

The village of Smolino (killing 63 people).
Zaloinka village (80 people died).
Chacha village (92 people died).

Sychevsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

Village Zaychiki (killing 23 people).
The village of Aksenino (killing 46 people).

Temkinsky district.

The village of Kolodezki was completely burned along with the inhabitants, where 92 out of 97 people died.

Ugransky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

New Village (Struggle) - 340 people were killed.
The village of Lamanchino. The death toll is unknown.
The village of Grishino. The death toll is unknown.
The village of Krivolevka. The death toll is unknown.

Khislavichi district.

The village of Zakharyino was completely burned. Killed 260 people.

Hill Zhirkovsky district.

Burned completely together with residents:

The village of Pogoreltsi (39 people died).
The Ninth Village - 1943 (146 people died).
The village of Palkino - 1943 (100 people died).
Ordylovo Village - 1941 (116 people were killed).
The village of Korovyakino - (175 people died).

Partially burned along with residents:

Kvasovo village - (16 people died).
Ovsyaniki Village - (50 people died).
The village of Troynia - (28 people died).

Roslavl Khatyn

The materials of the Extraordinary State Commission cite numerous facts of atrocities of the Nazis in the Roslavl region for the period of occupation, which lasted 784 days. Among them is the tragedy of the village of Zarudnyansky. September 23, 1941 the Nazis burned the village and shot 20 men and youths in front of their near and dear ones. Behind the stingy lines of documents are the lives and fates of the people of the whole village.
The village of Zarudnyansky was formed in 1926. 12 families of neighboring villages moved here to live as a commune. The village is located on a big road leading from Roslavl to Kozelsk. On this road near the river. Our naval ancestors apparently mined iron from swamp ore. Then this ironwork was forgotten, but the name of the town Rudnya remained, and the forge worked in the 30s. Hence the name of the villages: Podrudnyansky (in front of Rudnya on the Kozelsky Bolshak) and Zarudnyansky (behind Rudnya).
In 1939 3 more families are moving to the village. On the eve of the war in Zarudnyansky there are 15 yards with a population of 80 people. 300 meters from Zarudnyansky there was a workers' settlement, where there were 3 yards, and the Rodchenkov family lived at the railway crossing.
After the launch of the Roslavl-Sukhinichi railway in 1936, many Zarudnitsy became railroad workers. But the bulk of the population was connected with land. In the 30s, the Red Plowman collective farm was created here. Peasants plowed the land, mowed hay, grew bread, celebrated weddings. Children studied at the Volkovichi seven-year school. The Zarudnians knew the forest well, all the paths and streams, all the mushroom and berry places. They lived happily and happily in their native village.
But the war began. Five Zarudnitsa went to the front. Many male railway workers received a reservation, but did not have time to evacuate and ended up in occupied territory. Fascist aircraft often bombed the railway. During one of the bombings, Sergey Fedoseyev, who was only 18 years old, died.
The Red Army retreat along the Kozelsky Bolshak forests, and after them on August 3 Nazi tanks entered the village of Zarudnyansky. In the evening of the same day, one tank was blown up near the village. There were rumors that this was done by 2 friends, Zamerin Peter and Ivan Averchenkov. At night, partisans visited the village, whom the Zarudniks supplied with clothing and food.
In the afternoon, German troops marched along the front to the front. The day of September 23, 1941 turned out to be warm and fine. Despite the anxiety that did not leave people with the advent of the Nazis, the village lived an ordinary measured life. Nothing boded ill. The Zarudnians were engaged in everyday peasant affairs. In the morning they fed the cattle, sent them for grazing cows. Jamerin Matvey went to the mill, where he was a mechanic. His son Peter left on a horse with Ivan Averchenkov. The Nikulins surrounded the sauna. Averchenkova V.A .. equipped in Volkovichi for cabbage. In the large family of the Isachenkovs a bath was heated. But most Zarudnitsa went to the gardens to dig potatoes.
Suddenly about 4 hours. days in Zarudnyansky punishers appeared on 6 cars. They cordoned off the village and began to drive all the inhabitants to the house of Polina Bogacheva. People were led from the gardens, the weak old people were taken up from the beds, and the Isachenkov girls were brought naked from the bathhouse. Men and boys were taken aside to the barn. Women, old people, children were put on the ground, surrounded by 3 machine guns, they were not allowed to cry and talk. At that time, punitive robbed the village, loaded on cars everything that they liked: household utensils, clothes, food, chickens, geese, pigs. Looted houses were set on fire.
Lead the men to the burning barn. There was a machine gun burst. Those who did not fall were pushed into the fire. Ryabchikov Sergey managed to escape, but an enemy bullet overtook him, and the lifeless body of the young man hung on the fence. Seeing smoke from the forest, the two of them horseback riding Ivan Averchenkov and Zamerin Peter. The Nazis shot them at the Fomkin’s house. A guy of about 16 from Roslavl was riding a bicycle along a big road. The Nazis did not spare him either. Kurdachenkov Vasily from the village of Komli in Zarudnyansky had a wife with a small daughter. Noticing the fire, Vasily ran to the village. The punishers stabbed him with a dagger. On the outskirts of the village, Jamerin Matvey was shot dead.
Women, old people, children saw this whole terrible picture, in a daze, waiting for their fate. But then some big boss came with a translator and said that on the railway the partisans blew up a trolley with 3 German officers and the Zarudnants were punished for communicating with the partisans. The Germans know how to punish and pardon. The surviving residents of the village were ordered to disperse.
September 23, 1941 the village of Zarudnyansky ceased to exist.
All 15 houses were consumed by fire. 20 pax were shot and burned. Here are their names:
Averchenkov Vladimir, 58 years old
Averchenkov Ivan, 17 years old
Bobylev Peter, 26 years old
Bobylev Timofey, 57 years old
Zamerin Matvey, 47 years old
Zamerin Peter, 17 years old
Isachenkov Ivan, 41 years old
Isachenkov Ilya, 22 years old
Kapitonov Dmitry, 40 years old
Kapitonov Ivan, 27 years old
Kapitonov Roman, 56 years old
Kurdachenko Vasily, 19 years old
Ryabchikov Sergey, 18 years old
Fedoseev Prokop, 45 years old
A young man from the city of Roslavl, 16