Deportation of Koreans

Date: September 1, 1937 • Location: Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan

The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.

Koryo-saram or Koryoin are ethnic Koreans of the mainland former Soviet Union who descend from Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East.