Belenko Mikhail P.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences,Institute of history of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia; Siberian Institute of management –branch of RANEPA, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Evacuation of Civilians in the Central Asian Republics of the USSR During the Great Patriotic War
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-4-9
Central Asia, along with the Urals and Western Siberia during the Great Patriotic War was one of the key rear regions of the USSR, and took a significant number of evacuated citizens. This article is devoted to the issues of the number of migrants, their transportation routes and features of accommodation in the region. The study of the existing statistical data showed that the errors of population accounting in 1941–1942 were large and could reach 15–20 % of the total number of people who arrived to evacuate the population. In addition, the population registers, for various reasons, provided the authorities with information on the number of evacuees with a great delay. However, it can be argued that all the years of the war, Central Asia has taken more than 800 thousand people, three quarters of which arrived in the region in 1941, and one quarter in 1942 the Largest number of migrants adopted by the Kazakh and Uzbek SSR – a total of about 80%of the total number of evacuees. The reasons for this distribution were the high pre-war demographic and infrastructural potential of these Union republics.
Publishing: 30/08/2019
How to cite: Belenko M.P. Evacuation of Civilians in the Central Asian Republics of the USSR During the Great Patriotic War // Historical Courier, 2019, #4(6). Article9. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-4-09.pdf
Links: Issue 4 2019
Keywords: evacuation; evacuation of civilians; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; historical demography; the Great Patriotic War