Gully of Petrushino
| Gully of Petrushino | |
|---|---|
Early September 1943. Fascist atrocities discovered at Gully of Petrushino, Taganrog | |
| Also known as | Gully of Death |
| Location | outskirts of Taganrog, near Beriev Aircraft Company |
| Date | 1941-1943 |
| Incident type | Genocide |
| Perpetrators | Otto Ohlendorf, Kurt Christmann |
| Organizations | Einsatzgruppe D, Sonderkommando 10a, Russian Auxiliary Police |
| Victims | Over 7,000 Soviet civilians and POWs, and members of the Taganrog resistance movement |
| Memorials | memorial 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.