(from Criminal Case No. 103 of the Uzbek SSR Procuracy, volume 17, pages 101-102).
Secret
Ministry for the Preservation of Public Order [MOOP] of the Uzbek SSR
Tashkent City
To: KGB Chairman,
Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR,
Lieutenant-General, comrade S. I. Kiselyov
Memorandum No. 713-373, 8 February 1968
Your Ref: 3/99, 29 January 1968
I inform you that the arrival in the Uzbek SSR of specially deported Tatars from the Crimea commenced on 29 May 1944 and basically finished on 8 July 1944.
The first data about the number of Crimean Tatars arriving at special settlements in the archive documents of the Uzbek SSR KGB (9th section) and Ministry of Internal Affairs (4th special section) refer to 1 July 1944. By this date 35,750 families had arrived, a total of 151,424 persons.
On 1 January 1945 the numbers of specially deported Crimean Tatars in Uzbekistan were 36,568 families, constituting 134,742 persons: 21,619 men, 47,537 women, and 65,586 children under 16.
The position on 1 January 1946 was: 34,946 families, constituting 120,129 persons, of which 21,332 were men, 42,071 women and 56,726 children under 16.
In the period from 1 January 1945 to 1 January 1946, 13,183 persons died, of whom 2,562 were men, 4,525 women and 6,096 children under 16. The change in the number of specially deported Crimean Tatars is also to be explained by departures beyond the boundaries of the republic, removals from the register, escapes from places of settlement, and arrests for crimes committed.
First Deputy Minister for the Preservation of Public Order,
Uzbek USSR General, Internal Service, rank III
M. Beglov
Received 9 February 1968
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Secret
Ministry for the Preservation of Public Order [MOOP] of the Uzbek SSR
Tashkent City
To: Investigations department
Uzbek SSR KGB
Memorandum No. 713-2026, 15 February 1968
Your Ref: 3/184, 14 February 1968
There is no analytical data on changes in the composition of the people deported from the Crimea in the period from May-July 1944 to 1 January 1945 in the archive documents of the Uzbek SSR KGB (9th section) and Ministry of Internal Affairs (4th special section).
One of the reports on the economic and domestic arrangements of the special settlers from the Crimea dated 9 April 1945 mentions that from the moment of deportation of the special settlers from the Crimea to the Uzbek SSR, i.e. from May 1944 up to 1 January 1945, 13,592 persons, constituting 9.1% of them, died.
Colonel Kravchenko, Head of 1st Special Section of the Uzbek SSR MOOP,
Head of 3rd Department, Stokova
Received 20 February 1968
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