Evacuation in the Soviet Union

Evacuation in the Soviet Union is the evacuation of people and industry after the German invasion in 1941. According to Rebeca Marley over sixteen million Soviet civilians were evacuted.^[1][2] According to Walter S. Dunn 1,523 large factories were moved by the end of 1941.^[3] Prisoners were evacuated, many of them massacred. Lenin's body was moved to Tyumen. Part of Hermitage Museum collection was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Kuybyshev was the alternative capital of the Soviet Union 1941-1943. Novosibirsk received more than 140,000 refugees and many factories.

Notes and references

1. To the Tashkent Station, Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War
2. Reviewed by Nicholas Ganson
3. "The Soviet economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945" by Walter S. Dunn, page 34

External links

• Evacuation 1941-1942
• Evacuation to Ural
• Evacuation to Northern Kasakhstan