the mass grave, where in 1959 a memorial was erected as well as plaques with the names of those who had died in the war. [6] Memorial to the defenders of the Lenin khutor who died in 1943 (Russian: Памятник защитникам хутора Ленина, погибшим в 1943 году) At the break of dawn on 20 January 1943 an avant-garde of the mechanized corps of the lieutenant general Rotmistrov (Third guard Kotelnikov tank corps) entered the khutor. Their aim was to destroy German transport airplanes at the aerodrome near Bataysk. German fascists were going to use the airplanes to deliver food supplies and clothes to the grouping of Paulus surrounded in Stalingrad. The goal was achieved, but only one tank came back, and 20 Red Army soldiers were buried in the mass grave, near which the memorial is stood nowadays. [6] Mass grave of the soldiers, who died during The Great Patriotic War in Voroshilov khutor In the summer of 1942, while the dwellers of the khutor were doing military defense works, German warplanes came from Taganrog side. They dropped bombs and directed machine-gun fire towards the dwelling. 240 Nazi bombs were dropped on the khutor. They destroyed commercial-dairy farms, horse stables, cemetery etc. 26 khutor dwellers, mainly children, were shot or brutally tortured by Nazi during their invasion. Their and the other frontline soldiers’ names were carved on the marble plaque of the memorial, which is erected in the khutor's park. [7] Memorials in Bolshoi Log khutor In November 1941 Germans entered Bolshoi Log. The first time they spent 7 days there and the second time in 1942 they didn’t leave for 6 months. In the beginning of February 1943 the Germans, who took the best houses in Rekonstruktor sovkhoz (Russian: совхоз, abbreviated from советское хозяйство, “Soviet farm”), started to dig trenches from the wine factory to Bolshoi Log khutor. In February-March 1943 The Soviet Armed Forces came close to the railway. The place was very exposed and the soldiers were out in the open. Germans fired them with machine-gun fire and finished off those who were alive in the morning. The frontline soldiers fell, but the rest of them continued to attack. A great deal of Red Army soldiers died in this battle. Only at night Germans left the trench lines. There were a lot of wounded soldiers, they could have been rescued, but the night was so cold that