MARCOVO

v. MARCOVO:     US Commission No. UA10160501
Alternate name: Victorshtaght (Russian) and Marcove (Ukraine). The mass grave is located E outskirts of the village, 108 km from Kirovograd and 25 km from Dobrovelichkovka. Present town population is 1,000 - 5,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Executive Commitee Chairman of Village Soviet, Krizanovsky Vitaliy Victorovich, Kirovogradskaya province, Dobrovelichkovsky district, [Phone: 2-13-76]. Chairman of State District Administration, Krainosvit Victor Petrovich, Post Office Dobrovelichkovka, Shevchenko Str. 101/28 (05253) [Phone: 2-12-46].
-- Regional: State Administration of the Province Chairman, Gromovoy Michail Philippovich, t. Kirovograd, Kirov's Square (0522) [Phone: 24-03-30]. Town officials: Chairman of the Jewish Community, Elbert Leonid Solomonovich, of t. Kirovograd, 50-Years of October St. 25, Apt. 33, (0522) [Phone: 23-22-83].
-- Others: Museum of Local History employee, Post Office of Dobrovelichkovka, of Troskachenko Dmitriy Dmitrievich (05253) [Phone: 2-22-36].
The earliest known Jewish community was middle of 19th century. Effecting the Jewish Community in middle of 19th century wasJewish agricultural colony farming, 1905 pogroms, and Civil War. The last known Hasidic burial was in 1941. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked mass grave. The isolated rural (agricultural) hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall or fence surrounds site or gate. The approximate size of mass grave before WWII was 0.00 hectares. No stones are visible. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are agricultural. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Rarely, private visitors and local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of site are no structures. Serious threat: vegetation (Absence of signage threatens to destroy burial places) and vandalism. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution and proposed nearby development. Slight threat: existing nearby development.
Hodorkovsky Yuriy Issacovich of Kiev, Vozduhoflotsky Prospect 37-a, apt. 23 [Phone: (044)] completed survey on 14/11/1996. Documentation: Borovoy S.Ya. Jewish Agricultural Colonization within old Russia M., 1928.; Kirovogradshchina during the Great Patriotic War , 1941-1945. Collection of documents and materials-Dnepropetrovsk, 1965. Interviewed were Troskachenko D.D. of Dobrovelichkovka Post Office [Phone: (05253)] on 4 /11/1996 and Musem of Local History employee [Phone: 2-13-83].