The USSR Council of People's Commissars hereby resolves:

1. To approve the instruction submitted by the USSR NKVD for deportations from the western oblasts of the UkSSR and BSSR:

a) of the families of former officers of the Polish Army, police, prison guards, gendarmes, intelligence agents, former landowners, manufacturers, officials of the former Polish state apparatus, and participants in c-r insurgent organizations being held in prisoner-of-war camps and prisons;

b) of refugees from the territory of former Poland now in Germany who have expressed the desire to leave the borders of the Soviet Union for the territory now occupied by the Germans, but have not been accepted by the German government;

Most of these were Jews; see Part I, note 282.

c) of prostitutes previously registered with the organs of the former Polish police who continue to engage in prostitution.

2. To instruct the Sovnarkom of the Kazakh SSR to take the necessary measures to relocate the families enumerated in point 1-a, numbering 22,000–25,000 families in the northern oblasts of the Kazakh SSR, and to secure their living conditions and labor utilization.

Beria had already so instructed the Kazakh SSR commissar of internal affairs on 20 March 1940; see doc. 52.

3. To obligate the NKPS [People's Commissariat of Communications] to provide for the conveyance of deported persons, eighty-one echelons of fifty-five train cars each, to the railway stations of the western oblasts of the UkSSR and BSSR within the periods of time specified in the request of the USSR NKVD.

4. The USSR people's commissar of health (Com. Miterev) shall provide the echelons of deportees along the route of their journey with medical personnel and the necessary medications and equipment as per the requests of the USSR NKVD.

5. To require the USSR Narkomtorg [People's Commissariat of Trade] to organize the feeding of the deportees along the route of their journey at points to be determined by the USSR NKVD.

6. To require the USSR Narkomles [People's Commissariat of Forests] (Com. Antselovich) and Narkomchermet [People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy] (Com. Samokhvalov) to carefully prepare the reception, placement, housing, and labor utilization of the deported families of refugees specified in point I-b, being sent to work in the enterprises of USSR Narkomles and Narkomchermet.

7. To require the [local] executive committees where the refugees are being deported to render the USSR NKVD, USSR Narkomles, and Narkomchermet the necessary assistance in transporting and placing the deported families of refugees.

8. The USSR Narkomfin [People's Commissariat of Finances] (Com. Zverev) shall make provision, based on the USSR NKVD estimate for 1940, for an additional allocation in the amount of 30,250,000 rubles for expenses involved in deporting the individuals specified in point 1 of the present resolution.