After the Nazi German army retreated from the Battle of Stalingrad, the local residents began searching for their missing relatives. The parents gazed in grief as they discovered the body of their son, who had died of exposure on the snowy battlefield in the southern Russian city of Pyt-Yagorsk.

   After the Nazi German army retreated from the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front during World War II, the local residents began searching for their missing relatives. The parents gazed in grief as they discovered the body of their son, who had died of frostbite on the snowy battlefield in the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk. Local residents surrounded them and watched on.

   From the Barbarossa Operation of World War II, the Wehrmacht temporarily occupied Pyatigorsk in the Soviet Union. In 1942, Einsatzgruppe D's Einsatzkommando 12 set up its headquarters in Pyatigorsk. The German army occupied the area and killed many of the local Jewish residents. The starting point for the operation in Pyatigorsk was reached by the Wehrmacht on August 10th 1942, and they reached the Khadar Gorge on August 16th. On August 21st, troops from the German 1st Mountain Division raised the Nazi German flag on the summit of Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the Caucasus and Europe. During the German occupation, mass executions were carried out by Gestapo executioners. The Battle of Stalingrad, which broke out on June 28th 1942, quickly developed into a large-scale battle due to the tenacious resistance of the Soviet army and large-scale counterattacks. At the end of 1942, in the Battle of Stalingrad in the Caucasus, local partisans, who knew every valley and path, fought along the roads of the Ossetian army.

   On January 11, 1943, the Soviet army liberated Pyatigorsk from the invading German army. In early 1943, the German army began to withdraw from other areas. They built a defensive line (the Kuban Bridgehead) on the Taman Peninsula and launched a new campaign in the Caucasus. The Germans were ordered to retreat again, and by September 1943, the fighting in the Caucasus had effectively ended. On February 28, 1943, the German forces in the besieged city of Stalingrad were forced to surrender.