The memorial complex "Fighters" in Petrushinskoe beam is in the vicinity of Taganrog in the village Petrushin. For the seventh ten years the locals call this place "beams of death." Here, in an old clay quarry, the Nazis killed more than 10 thousand of any innocent people of different nationalities, religions, party affiliation, age. Among them were 164 underground worker. Balka's death is a complex of tombs and memorials built here at the initiative of the chairman of the Jewish community, who was himself a prisoner of the Nazi torture chamber.

During the Great Patriotic War of Taganrog were very heavy fighting, particularly in 1943, when the Nazis did not want to give the Soviet troops started within two years of occupation defenses. But the mass executions in Petrushinskoe boom began shortly after the occupation of Taganrog in October 1941. As the witnesses of those events, the city is constantly circled the plane, drowning out the sound of gunfire. The corpses in a ravine barely covered with earth, and at the entrance of the beam hung a sign "Forbidden Zone, for violation - shot. SS Sonderkommando and 10 ". A few days after the liberation of Taganrog 1 September 1943 opened the grave, the eyes of the townspeople appeared a terrible picture of thousands of mutilated corpses.

In August 1945, in a ravine of death established a modest obelisk in memory of the victims. In 1965, a group of Rostov architects (N. Booth, VP Dubovik, JS Zanis, A.G.Kasyukov) took up the development of the memorial and two years later presented the project in the city house of culture for discussion. The project has been praised, but, unfortunately, has not been realized.

Later, a new project was created by architects Grachev, who was partially implemented in 1973 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Taganrog. He represented an 18-meter stele and was originally called "victims", but later, after much debate, the choice was stopped on the name "fighters".

Currently, the plan of the architect VI Taganrog Cherepanov being reconstructed memorial.