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*In 1936, the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (whose territory by then corresponded to that of modern Kazakhstan) was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The republic was one of the destinations for '''exiled and convicted persons''', as well as for '''mass resettlements, or deportations by the USSR''', such as approximately 400,000 '''Volga Germans''', and then later the '''Greeks and Crimean Tatars'''.  
*In 1936, the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (whose territory by then corresponded to that of modern Kazakhstan) was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The republic was one of the destinations for '''exiled and convicted persons''', as well as for '''mass resettlements, or deportations by the USSR''', such as approximately 400,000 '''Volga Germans''', and then later the '''Greeks and Crimean Tatars'''.  
*Deportees and prisoners were interned in some of the '''biggest Soviet labour camps (the Gulag)''', including '''ALZhIR camp outside Astana''', which was reserved for the wives of men considered "enemies of the people".
*Deportees and prisoners were interned in some of the '''biggest Soviet labour camps (the Gulag)''', including '''ALZhIR camp outside Astana''', which was reserved for the wives of men considered "enemies of the people".
*In the late 1930s, thousands of '''Koreans''' in the Soviet Union were deported to Central Asia.
*Significant Russian immigration was also connected with the '''Virgin Lands Campaign''' and Soviet space program during the Khrushchev era. In 1989, '''ethnic Russians''' were 37.8% of the population.<ref>"Kazakhstan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan, accessed 23 July 2023.</ref>
*Significant Russian immigration was also connected with the '''Virgin Lands Campaign''' and Soviet space program during the Khrushchev era. In 1989, '''ethnic Russians''' were 37.8% of the population.<ref>"Kazakhstan", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan, accessed 23 July 2023.</ref>


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