Ethnic Deportations and Population Transfers Affecting Russian Territories (1930s–1950s)

1. Collectivization drives early mass rural deportations

   Jan 1, 1930Labels: Kulaks, Collectivization

   • Map of Memory
   • Cambridge Core

2. OGPU takes control of “special settler” system

   May 15, 1931Labels: OGPU, Special Settlers

   • Map of Memory

3. Border-zone deportations hit Ingrian Finns

   Jan 1, 1935Labels: Ingrian Finns, Leningrad Region

   • Ingrian Finns

4. Soviet Koreans deported from the Far East

   Sep 1, 1937Labels: Soviet Koreans, Far East

   • Soviet Koreans

5. Kola Norwegians removed from Murmansk borderlands

   Jun 23, 1940Labels: Kola Norwegians, Murmansk Oblast

   • Kola Norwegians
   • Special Settlements

6. Volga German ASSR abolished; mass deportation ordered

   Aug 28, 1941Labels: Volga Germans, Volga German

   • Volga Germans
   • NORKA

7. Karachays deported from the North Caucasus

   Nov 2, 1943Labels: Karachays, North Caucasus

   • Karachays

8. Kalmyks deported and autonomy dismantled

   Dec 28, 1943Labels: Kalmyks, Operation Ulusy

   • Kalmyks
   • WAOP Kalmyks

9. Chechens and Ingush deported in Operation Lentil

   Feb 23, 1944Labels: Chechens, Ingush

   • Chechens Ingush
   • e history kz

10. Balkars deported from Kabardino-Balkaria

    Mar 8, 1944Labels: Balkars, Kabardino-Balkaria

    • Balkars
    • WAOP Balkars

11. Crimean Tatars deported from Crimea

    May 18, 1944Labels: Crimean Tatars, Crimea

    • Deportation Decree
    • Crimean Tatars

12. Soviet Greeks removed from Crimea after Tatars

    Jun 2, 1944Labels: Soviet Greeks, Crimea

    • Soviet Greeks

13. Meskhetian Turks deported from southern Georgia

    Nov 14, 1944Labels: Meskhetian Turks, Southern Georgia

    • Meskhetian Turks
    • Caucasian House

14. Restrictions lifted for many “special settlers”

    Sep 25, 1956Labels: Special Settlers, NKVD Interior

    • Soviet Greeks

15. Checheno-Ingush ASSR re-established amid returns

    Jan 9, 1957Labels: Checheno-Ingush ASSR, Returns

    • Checheno Ingush

16. Crimean Tatars “rehabilitated” without right of return

    Sep 5, 1967Labels: Crimean Tatars, Rehabilitation

    • Ukaz 493

17. USSR condemns deportations as unlawful and criminal

    Nov 14, 1989Labels: USSR Supreme, Deportation Condemnation

    • Repressed Peoples Law

18. RSFSR passes law on rehabilitation of repressed peoples

    Apr 29, 1991Labels: RSFSR, Rehabilitation Law

    • Repressed Peoples Law
    • HRW Russia