Operation North

Forced population transfer in the Soviet Union
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Policies
Dekulakization Evacuation Forced settlements Gulag
Peoples
Azerbaijanis from Armenia Balkars Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Chechens and Ingush Chinese Crimean Tatars Estonians NKVD operation Finns Ingrian Finns NKVD operation Germans 1941–1942 from Romania NKVD operation Greeks NKVD operation Harbinites Kalmyks Karachays Koreans Kumyks Kurds from Transcaucasia Latvians NKVD operation Lithuanians Meskhetian Turks Poles NKVD operation 1944–1946 1955–1959 Polish and Soviet Jews Between Poland and Soviet Ukraine Between Poland and Soviet Belarus Between Poland and Soviet Lithuania
Operations
June deportation German–Soviet population transfers Operation North Operation Osen Operation Priboi Operation Vesna Operation Vistula
WWII POW labor
POW Administration Japanese Germans Hungarians Romanians
Massive labor force transfers
Twenty-five-thousanders NKVD labor columns Virgin Lands campaign

Operation North (Russian: Операция "Север") was the code name which was assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security to the massive deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses and their families to Siberia in the Soviet Union on 1 and 8 April 1951.