Malaya Zemlya (, lit. "Minor Land") was a Soviet uphill outpost on Cape Myskhako () that was recaptured after fierce, bloody battles with the Germans during the Battle of Caucasus, on the night of 4 February 1943. The episode paved way for a Soviet attack on German forces in Novorossiysk. Against very strong forces, the marines held their ground. The leader of the group, Major Caesar Kunikov () was mortally wounded, and was posthumously awarded the highest Soviet World War II title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He is one of the Soviet-Jewish World War II heroes.