Between 1944 and 1952, some 50,000 were killed in Lithuania, 70,000 sent to labour camps, and 150,000 were deported and unable to return home until the mid-1950s. Since 1989 expeditions from Lithuania have visited and investigated sites of deportation.

This website illustrates several waves of deportation, beginning with the USSR’s brief wartime occupation of Lithuania, and the work of a succession of missions to record and commemorate those who did not return. As with the deportation of Poles in 1939-1941, Lithuanians were in almost all cases sent to pre-existing settlements and villages. By 2016, ten of these 29 locations were uninhabited (UI) or non-existent (NE). Only one, that in the town of Asino (Tomsk Region; pop. 25,618, 2010), enjoyed protected status.

Until 2016 most of the sites listed here were used for excursions, educational and cultural purposes, etc [*] and for occasional (c) or, in two cases, annual [C] ceremonial events (see KEY). Researcher Gintautas Alekna has since been denied access to Russia and these burial grounds.

(The dates below refer to years of deportation and exile, not death or burial.)