POPULATION TRANSFERSIN CRIMEAN AND CAUCASUS REGIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500530012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL t?TELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION .REPORT
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SUBJECT Population Traansfors in. Crimean and.
Caucasus Regions
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a, Kalmrks: No deportal.ione. rreportodo
b~ Ch.rkessa All exiled to Kazakh SSR in 194"2' 944
u< .Kabardina No deportations reported0
dt Balkars: No deportations :reported.
a, Karaa;,saia All oxiled toward Kazakh SSR<
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The pre wax (1939) population of Crimea was between 800,000 and one million
inhabit:ants, Of those 55 percent, were Tartars,, 15 percent Ukrainian 0
15 percent Great Russians 7 percent Greeks, $ percent Germans, 2 percent
Jews, and the remainixa 3 percent Armenians ItalianaF and Albanianao
2? After the reoccupation of Crimea by the Soviets in 194 , the following
populat:Lon transfers were ef'fecteds
an Tartars: All were deported to Uzbek SSR and d azakh. SSR.
be UIc ainians and Great Russians: All who had contact with or collaborated
7ri~twh~ythe Germans were iwprisoned0 Some 2500 to 3000 were held at, Vetlag
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cm Greeks: All were deported to Uzbek end Kazakh SSrt s
de Go;:maz z Most had been deported early in IM. In 1.944 the rest: wore
sent to Soviet 1al or camps. All Volga Germans ages 15 to 60 were
mobilized in Juno 1941 and on>rsjlled in labor Batt?alioa~ag while their
families were dapr,rtc d. to the ]Saza SSA and the Far Las t0 About 1500
to 2000 Volga Germans forming two labor battalions were at Noy 12
Vet1ag camp dt rin 1942-1943L, In 1948 an order was issued declaring
these Germans as rear prisoners Source states the Germans were obliged
to sign statements indicating they would willingly settle in the area
of the Vetlag oexmpsn All sided and wore given permission to bring
their families to the aareaG, Source says Volga Germans were fed better
theta other lahorera
ea Jews; No deportations were report:ed0
f4 Armenians, Italians, and Albanians These groups were troy tad in the saw
masaner as were the Gardens
3o There was no general. deportation of the Don and Torok C0Ssaokze Ho overp
nea.zly 2000 wore charged with being collaborators and wore sent to labor
cat> s, some after being tried, others without trial so In some canes, trials
were held later rt the caanpa and some Cossacks were wet free0
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f Ossetians: No depores'ctions repoiated0
ge Cherchon.Inguaht All exiled to Uzbek and Kazakh Its 194341944a
5, The present population of the Dagestan ASSR is estimated at from
800,000 to 1,,0000000, It is inhabited by 20 to 25 ethnic group,, the most
important of which inOltede t
&, Davlinit About 4008000 Moslems of the Caucasian race,
b, Noumilci: About 150,000 1elems of the Lngolian race,
o., Avarat About 658000 Moslems of the Mongolian race,
dt, Gortsst About 300000 jewa0
e,, Persionst About 50,,000 Moslems of the Caucasian race.
R T 'Ids About 80,,000 Moslems of the Caucasian ruceo
g,, aaghait About 65,000 Moslems of the Mongolian racee
Nono of these peoples were deported from the Dagostan ASSR0
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