nikoenkovaya, yuri gonchar, daniil prokudin, lead. lipetsk court recognized the crimes of the nazis in the region during the years of occupation as genocide of the peoples of the soviet union. at four court hearings , witnesses and expert historians were heard. we examined secret archival documents. the application to the court was submitted to the prosecutors of the lipetsk region. on behalf of prosecutor general igor krasnov. according to the data in the lawsuit , about 3,000 people were killed in the region. more than thousands. the total amount of damage caused to the regional infrastructure, in modern terms, amounts to more than 2 trillion rubles. i would like to add that previously similar claims from the prosecutor’s office were satisfied by the courts of another twenty russian regions. people died from enemy raids. aviation shot and burned them, subjected them to violence and starved them, while the punitive forces were merciless even towards children, women, the disabled and the elderly. the youth of the lipetsk region were f