Gully of Petrushino

Gully of Petrushino
Early September 1943. Fascist atrocities discovered at Gully of Petrushino, Taganrog
Also known asGully of Death
Locationoutskirts of Taganrog, near Beriev Aircraft Company
Date1941-1943
Incident typeGenocide
PerpetratorsOtto Ohlendorf, Kurt Christmann
OrganizationsEinsatzgruppe D, Sonderkommando 10a, Russian Auxiliary Police
VictimsOver 7,000 Soviet civilians and POWs, and members of the Taganrog resistance movement
Memorialsmemorial complex “Борцы” on site

Gully of Petrushino (Russian: Петрушинская балка or Балка смерти from German: Todesschlucht) is a site on the outskirts of Taganrog, Russia, at which 7,000 Soviet civilians, mostly Jews, were massacred between 1941 and 1943 by the German army, with the assistance of non-German divisions, during their occupation of Taganrog.