Planned relocation of rural population to the territories of the Caucasus, Crimea and Volga region in the RSFSR, 1944-1953

The article analyzes the state policy on settling the territories of Crimea, the Caucasus and the Volga region, from where during World War II the Balkars, Ingush, Karachai, Crimean Tatars, Germans and Chechens were deported. On the basis of a wide range of archival sources, the author characterizes the benefits provided to the new settlers by the state (housing, livestock, tax breaks and loans). The author concludes that migration flows changed the ethno-national structure of the population in some recipient regions and notes that the newcomers performed relatively low percentage of settling down.