Victims of the Nazis in Pyatigorsk

Soldiers of the 37th Army of the North Caucasian Front under the command of Major General Pyotr Mikhailovich Kozlov, who were liberating Pyatigorsk from the Nazis, saw the bloody traces left behind by the invaders. Outside the city, in the area of the Glass Factory, where mass executions of civilians took place, ditches with the bodies of shot and tortured people were found. It was established that about 3,000 Soviet citizens, regardless of age, were brutally tortured in the dungeons of the Gestapo and shot in the vicinity of the city. Pyatigorsk, January 29, 1943 The destroyed building of the Lermontov Baths. Pyatigorsk, January 22-24, 1943. The bodies of the inhabitants of Pyatigorsk, brutally tortured by the Nazis with traces of torture and torture; the corpse of 4-year-old Svetlana Rudinskaya. killed by a shot in the face. A group of residents of the city and its suburbs stand by the bodies of the victims. Among them is Muravyova, who identified among the bodies of the shot her 63-year-old father - a worker of the Essentuki forestry enterprise, Yegor Pavlovich Reguzov weeping over the body of his son. Residents of the suburban state farm "Skachki" (woman and man) at the bodies of their brothers - Lukin and Ignatiev. Pyatigorsk, January 28, 1943. The funeral of the victims of the Nazi invaders. The funeral procession moves along Sovetsky Prospekt, along Karl Marx Street to the burial site. A meeting of many thousands at the burial site in a mass grave. Speeches at the rally of the representative of the command of the Red Army, Captain Lyutikov and a student of secondary school No. 3, 13-year-old Nika Pak, whose parents were shot by the Nazis. People say goodbye to their families, coffins with bodies are lowered into a mass grave.

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