deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union

Name: deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union
Start: 1937-09
End: 1937-10

Sep 1937 – Oct 1937 · 65.50° N, 147.40° E

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When: Sep 1937 – Oct 1937
Kind: Expulsion or deportation
Coordinates: 65.50° N, 147.40° E
Description: ethnic cleansing of Koreans in the Soviet Union

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Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union

1937 forced transfer to Central Asia

Nearly 172,000 Koryo-saram were forcibly transferred from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the Kazakh SSR and the Uzbek SSR in 1937 by the NKVD on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Molotov. 124 trains were used to resettle them 6,400 kilometres (4,000 mi) to Central Asia.

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