Ukrainians in Siberia

During Operation Barbarossa evacuations commenced of Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian civilians from Europe over the Ural Mountains.

These evacuees included skilled Russian and Jewish workers and professionals as well as nationally conscious members of the Ukrainian clergy and intelligentsia.

The Soviets feared that the Nazis would exploit the ethno-national detachment of the educated and many were prohibited from returning to Ukraine after the war.

[6] Large numbers of people with full or partial Ukrainian descent were born in Siberia and live there.

[7] The Ukrainian Catholic Church has Branches in many Siberian towns and villages that serve the immigrants from Western Ukraine.