Forced migration in the Soviet Union

thumb|265x265px|The requisition of grain from "wealthy peasants" (kulaks) during state Collectivization in the Soviet Union|collectivization in [[Timashyovsky District, Kuban, Soviet Union, 1933]] A kulak ( ; ; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul () or golchomag (, plural: ), was a peasant who owned over of land in the times near the end of the Russian Empire. In the early Soviet Union, particularly in Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan, kulak referred to property ownership among peasants who were considered hesitant allies of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Ukraine during 1

transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union

exodus & deportation during and after the end of the Second World War from 1945 to 1950

Dekulakization (; ) was a campaign of repression in the Soviet Union directed against so-called kulaks, a loosely defined category of supposedly wealthy or exploitative peasants. The campaign involved mass arrests, executions, expropriation of property, and deportations of entire households to remote and inhospitable regions.

uyezd of the Soviet Union

mass deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses to Siberia

ethnic cleansing of Koreans in the Soviet Union

steamships which transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Union in 1922; mainly 2 German ships, Oberbürgermeister Haken and Preussen, which transported >160 Russian intellectuals and their families in Sept.–Nov. 1922 from Petrograd to Stettin

Soviet-era prison island event

De-Cossackization (; ) was the Bolshevik policy of systematic repression against the Cossacks in territories of the former Russian Empire between 1919 and 1933, especially the Don and Kuban Cossacks in Russia, aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a distinct collectivity by exterminating the Cossack élite, coercing all other Cossacks into compliance, and eliminating Cossack distinctness. Several scholars have categorised this as a form of genocide, whilst other historians have highly disputed this classification due to the contentious figures involved, which range from "a few thousand to

thumb|The village of Stanytsa Poltavskya Poltavskaya (; ) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Krasnoarmeysky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Kuban River, west of Krasnodar. Population:

post WWII resettlement

forced resettlement and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis from Armenia

400px|thumb|Farewell to Europe, by Aleksander Sochaczewski. A sybirak (, plural: sybiracy) is a person resettled to Siberia. Like its Russian counterpart sibiryák, the word can refer to any dweller of Siberia, but it more specifically refers to Poles imprisoned or exiled to Siberia or even to those sent to the Russian Arctic or to Kazakhstan

Norwegian immigrant-descendants in Russia

involuntary settlements for deported minorities in the Soviet Union

Deportations from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951

Soviet deportation

Ukrainian nationalist Insurgency against the Soviet Union

ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union

Soviet forced displacement (1937-44)

period of Poles repatriation

military-like labor regiments in the USSR

mass casualties carried out on the Chechen people by Russia

thumb|210px|Orthodox Church in Balta, Ukraine|Balta, center of the Inochentist movement (1941 photograph) Inochentism (occasionally translated as Innocentism or the Inochentist church; ; Russian: Иннокентьевцы, Innokentevtsy) is a millennialist and Charismatic Christian sect, split from mainstream Eastern Orthodoxy in the early 20th century. The church was first set up in the Russian Empire, and was later active in both the Soviet Union and Romania. Its founder was Bessarabian monk Ioan Levizor, known by his monastic name, Inochenție.

Russian Empire term for people who lost social status, particularly as a result of the October Revolution