Repatriation and deportation of Armenian population in the second half 1940s

The paper is devoted to repatriation of Armenian population to the USSR in 1946-1948 and their deportation from south regions of the Soviet Union to the Altai territory in 1949. The quantity of this particular category of forces migrants, as well as structure of their settlement and local policy on adaptation and regional distribution is clarified first time in historiography on the basis of new data from central and the Altai territory archives. The author believes that the Armenian (Dashnak) special contingent was partially formed by repatriated population.