Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Geographical Distribution of Labor Army 1 October 1945

On 1 October 1945 there were 113,946 Russian-Germans working in the labor army in the USSR in 27 different republics, autonomous republics, oblasts, and krais. The territory with the most labor army conscripts was Kemerovo Oblast in western Siberia with 16,412 such forced laborers. Siberia as a whole had a recorded 25,778  Russian-German labor army conscripts versus 12,917 for Kazakhstan, 2,045 for the rest of Central Asia, and 47,572 in the Urals. The remainder were spread out over other areas of Russia including 1,731 in Arkhangel'sk Oblast and 1,061 in the Komi ASSR.

Breakdown for Central Asia

Kazakhstan - 12,917
Kyrgyzstan - 220
Turkmenistan - 1,616
Uzbekistan - 209

Breakdown for Siberia

Kemerovo Oblast - 16,412
Novosibirsk Oblast - 4,224
Altai Krai - 2,492
Khabarovsk Krai - 1,714
Omsk Oblast - 936

Source: N.F. Bugai, Oni srazhalis' za rodinu: Predstaviteli repressirovannykh narodov SSSR na frontakh Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (Moscow: Novyi Khrongraf, 2005), p. 225.

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