Sybirak
Sign in to save400px|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
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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 in the 1940s (post World War II).
==History== thumb|250px|Black and white reproduction of Zesłanie Studentów (Students Exile) by Jacek Malczewski from 1891 thumb|250px|Christmas Eve in Siberia, by [[Jacek Malczewski, 1892.]] thumb|250px|The Prisoners (painting)|The Prisoners, [[Jacek Malczewski, 1883]] Russian and Soviet authorities exiled many Poles to Siberia, starting with the 18th-century opponents of the Russian Empire's increasing influence in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (most notably the members of the Bar Confederation of 1768–1772). Maurice, Count de Benyovszky was deported and emigrated to Madagascar.