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The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union ( Russian: Депортация корейцев в СССР; Korean: 고려인의 강제 이주) was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Soviet Koreans (Koryo-saram) 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 Co...
- September–October 1937
- Primorsky Krai
- Several estimates, 1) 16,500, 2) 28,200, 3) 40,000, 4) 50,000, (10%–25% mortality rate)
- NKVD
The Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union, originally conceived in 1926, initiated in 1930, and carried through in 1937, was the first mass transfer of an entire nationality in the Soviet Union. Almost the entire Soviet population of ethnic Koreans (171,781 people) were forcibly moved from the Russian Far East to unpopulated areas of the ...
- 1930–1952
- ~800,000–1,500,000 in the USSR
East and their deportation to Central Asia. Why did Koreans abandon their fatherland and migrate into the undeveloped territories of Russia? What factors attracted Koreans to move into Russia? How did Koreans live in Russia? How did the tsarist and Soviet governments deal with the Koreans? Why were Koreans deported from the Far East to Central ...
The deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union was the forced transfer of nearly 172,000 Soviet Koreans (Koryo-saram) 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 ...
Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic community) during the ...
The deportations began in the 1930s from vulnerable border areas; for. example, 171,000 Koreans were deported from the Far East to Central. Asia. A second wave of deportations began with the outbreak of war in 1939. For each source, the map shows the dates of deportation and the number of deportees.
Koreans who moved from Central Asia to the Russian Far East (here after RFE)1 in the early 1990s were one of those ethnic groups affected by this issue in post-Soviet space. Focusing on Korean migrants in the RFE, this article presents the diverse.
