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256 Андрій Когут Підсумки та результати депортації «Запад» за документами МДБ УРСР 257 6. Kohut, A. (2020). Materialy perliustratsii korespondentsii za 1946–1949 The methodology is based on the application of general historical-comparative roky iak dzherelo dlia doslidzhennia operatsii «Zakhid» (1947). Arhivi and historical-critical approaches, combined with source studies and archival methods (internal and external critique of sources), as well as Ukraini – Archives of Ukraine, 1, 155–172. [In Ukrainian]. problem-chronological and statistical-analytical methods (with elements 7. Pahiria, O. Operatsiia «Zakhid» na Zakhidnij Ukraini u zhovtni 1947 roku. of quantitative approach). Memorial’nyj muzej totalitarnykh rezhymiv «Terytoriia teroru». Retrieved Conclusions. Analysis of the MGB documents convincingly shows that the November 19, 2020: http://www.territoryterror.org.ua/uk/publications/ potential final quantitative results of Operation «Zapad» are the data details/?newsid=299 [In Ukrainian]. recorded in the note «On the results of the operation to evict the families 8. Perkovs’kyj, A.L. and Pyrozhkov, S.I. (1990). Demohrafichni vtraty Uk- of OUN members and bandits from the western regions of Ukraine» of December 26, 1947. rains’koi RSR u 40-i rr. Ukrains’kyj istorychnyj zhurnal – Ukrainian The commanders of Operation «Zapad» deliberately manipulated Historical Journal, 2, 15–24. [In Ukrainian]. quantitative indicators in order to overfulfill the plan. The results of the 9. Pobol’, N. and Polyan, P. (Comps.). (2005). Stalinskie deportacii. 1928– deportation intensified the atmosphere of fear among the local population, 1953. Moskva: MFD: Materik. [In Russian]. which had a significant demoralizing effect on the direct support of the Ukrainian underground. At the same time, the deportation not only did 10. Serhijchuk, V. (2005). Ukrains’kyj zdvyh (Vol. 3: Prykarpattia. 1939– not lead to the liquidation of the structures of the Ukrainian liberation 1955). Kyiv: Ukrains’ka vydavnycha spilka. [In Ukrainian]. movement, but also intensified the activity of the Ukrainian underground. 11. Serhijchuk, V. (2017). Deportatsii ukraintsiv do Kazakhstanu. Vyshhorod. As a result of Operation «Zapad», 26 332 families or 77 791 people (more than every hundredth inhabitant of the seven western regions of [In Ukrainian]. the Ukrainian SSR) were deported from the territory of Western Ukraine. 12. Slyvka, Yu. (Comp.). (1998). Deportatsii. Zakhidni zemli Ukrainy kintsia 8% of families and 15.5% person in relation to all forcibly evicted managed 30-kh – pochatku 50-kh rr. Dokumenty, materialy, spohady (Vol. 2: 1946– to escape or avoid deportation. 1947 rr.). L’viv: In-t ukrainoznavstva im. I. Kryp’iakevycha NAN Ukrainy. The deportation had a distinct female face, as half of all evicted women were women (49% of women over the age of 15). More than half [In Ukrainian]. of all evictees – 55% – were families of previously convicted persons and 13. Vrons’ka, T. (2009). Etnodemohrafichna katastrofa v Zakhidnij Ukraini: families of those killed – 26%. The families of people who were in an zhovten’ 1947 r. Istoryko-heohrafichni doslidzhennia v Ukraini: Zb. nauk. «illegal» position and could directly participate in the Ukrainian liberation pr., (11), 238–255. [In Ukrainian]. movement at the time of the operation were only 16%. Thus, the operation actually became a repeated repression against families who had already 14. Vrons’ka, T. (2013). Upokorennia strakhom: simejne zaruchnytstvo u come under pressure from the Soviet totalitarian system. karal’nij praktytsi radians’koi vlady (1917–1953 rr.). Kyiv: Tempora. [In Key words: Operation «Zapad» («West»), Soviet deportations, MGB UkrSSR, Ukrainian]. counterinsurgency, Western Ukraine, Stalinist repressions. 15. Xaustov, V., Naumov, V. and Plotnikova N. (2007). Lubyanka. Stalin i MGB SSSR. Mart 1946 – mart 1953: Dokumenty vysshix organov partijnoj i gosudarstvennoj vlasti. Moskva: MFD: Materik. [In Russian]. 16. Zhyv’iuk, A.A. (Ed.). (2017). Reabilitovani istoriieiu. Rivnens’ka oblast’ (Vol. 7). Rivne. [In Ukrainian]. Kohut A. Outcomes and results of deportation «Zapad» («West») by the documents of the MGB UkrSSR The purpose of the article is to establish quantitative results and research of outcomes of the deportation operation «Zapad» («West») in October 1947, by analyzing a complex of archival evidences by the MGB UkrSSR, as the direct executor of mass forced evictions.