Mglin
Mglin is a town and the administrative center of Mglinsky District in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sudynka River west of Bryansk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:
History
Mglin was first mentioned in 1389, though the settlement it was built on had existed since the 12th century.During the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Mglin came under the control of Cossack forces and became a sotnia center within the Nizhyn Regiment, and from 1663, within the Starodub Regiment of the Cossack Hetmanate.In 1658, a Cossack detachment under the command of Ivan Nechay defeated the Russians near Mglin.
In 1760, Empress Elizabeth granted Mglin as a private estate to Kyrylo Rozumovsky, the last Hetman of Cossack Ukraine.
Following the abolition of the Hetmanate’s autonomy in 1781, Mglin became the administrative center of a uyezd within the Novgorod-Seversky Viceroyalty, and in 1802 it was incorporated into the Chernigov Governorate.
During World War II, Mglin was occupied by the German Army from 16 August 1941 to 22 September 1943.
Prior to the war, 726 Jews lived in the town. The majority of Jews were merchants and artisans. There was also a Jewish kolkhoz. There was a synagogue in the town, but it was closed before the war. Some of the Jews managed to evacuate before the Germans arrived. Shortly after the occupation, all of the Jews were registered and marked. In January 1942, they were confined to a prison, where they stayed till the execution on March 2, 1942. While in prison, the Jews were used for forced labor. Before being executed, the Jews had to undress to underwear in the little house, which used to be a morgue, situated about 500m from the mass grave. The shooting was carried out by a special German punitive unit in black uniforms and around 500 people were killed.