Deportation is the sending of someone under the convoy to a determined place, usually to a distant region, in a concentration camp, as a repressive measure. The main distinctive feature of Soviet deportations as repression lies in their administrative, extrajudicial, list-based nature. The focus was not on the individual citizen, but on the groups of people, often very numerous, which corresponded to the points of references issued from “above”. Detention decisions were usually taken by the leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet government at the initiative of the OGPU - NKVD - KGB authorities and other institutions. This practice places deportations outside the jurisdiction and legal framework of the judicial procedure, but also outside Soviet legislation, and dramatically distinguishes the Soviet system of banishment from the correctional labour camps and colonies, as well as from the system of camps for prisoners of war and internees