27/4/19

Terek Cossacks honour those killed in the Communist genocide of the 1920s




On April 20, 2019, the Cossacks of the Terek Cossack Army, together with the North Ossetian RO SKVRiZ and the North Ossetian RO "Two-Headed Eagle" commemorated the Day of Remembrance of the Terek Cossacks. The event was attended by representatives of the Terek Cossack troops from the Stavropol Territory, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, the Chechen Republic and North Ossetia.

The memorial was held for those Cossacks innocently killed during the genocide of the 1920s. In April 1920, several thousand old men, women and children were the victims of persecutions erected on the Terek Cossacks. The stanitsas located along the Sunzha River from the village of Tarskaya to Grozny suffered the most. In memory of the dead, in the 1990s, the Terek Cossacks built a mound and erected a worship cross.


After lithium, a memorial rally was held near Kurgan in memory, which was led by Ataman of the Terek Cossack Army A.A. Makovkin and Deputy Ataman of the Terek Military Cossack Society O.V. Gubenko. The head of the North Ossetian RO SKVRiZ Konstantin Mirikov and the Head of the North Ossetian RO "Double Eagle" together with their representatives laid a wreath and flowers to the place of the tragedy.