The Harvard University’s Ukrainian Science Institute has been engaged in a constantly updated electronic Atlas of the Holodomor for more than a year now.. New and new statistical sections of the tragedy are published, which help to visually present its scale, causes and general course..

Below, accompanied by a brief explanation, are some of the diagrams prepared by the joint efforts of an international team of researchers from Ukraine, the USA and Canada..

The peculiarity of the maps developed at Harvard is that they contain the administrative-territorial division as of the spring of 1933.. Seven regions of modern Western Ukraine (where many of the “skidnyakiv” fled to save themselves from starvation) were not part of the Ukrainian SSR. Whereas official Kharkov, where the capital of the “republic” was then, officially subordinated the left bank of the Dniester, which is now part of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian “state”.

Direct losses from the Holodomor per 1 thousand. of the population (by districts) And now look at how the grain procurement standards increased immediately before the Great Hunger.

The ratio of the norms of the Stalinist grain procurement: 1931-32. against 1930-31. (By districts) And compare - how much this corresponded to the possibilities of the villagers, especially in those areas and areas where not so much wheat was grown.

The percentage of crops allocated for wheat (by districts) So, the regions adjacent to Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Dnipro and Crimea were hardest hit..

The greatest number of deaths occurred in the forest-steppe within the conditional trapezium Vinnitsa-Kiev-Kharkov-Dnepr.

The industrial zone to the south of Donetsk is usually marked in white, since it was a solid industrial, not an agricultural region..

There was also a relative opportunity to survive, to be saved.. This is what the Atlas says:.

“If you look at the casualties at the district level, you can identify“ survival zones ”or zones where people had higher chances of survival during the Holodomor. The villagers who lived in the Ukrainian Polesie, on the border with Poland and Romania, or near the industrial complexes of the south, suffered from hunger less than other fellow citizens. Why? Different answers. Mainly in the forest region of Chernihiv, where in 1933 the mortality rate was 75.8 people per thousand population, compared with 183.5 people per thousand population in the mostly forest-steppe Kiev region, people could feed themselves and even livestock using forest-controlled uncontrolled forest products.. In the districts of Vinnytsia oblast, which were fortunate enough to border on the Soviet-Polish and Soviet-Romanian borders, the population suffered less hunger than the rest of the region, as Moscow paid special attention to the loyalty of the population in the border areas, supplying them with more food products than other regions of the Soviet Union. Finally, the low mortality rate in the Stalin region (Donetsk) can be explained by the migration of villagers to factories and mines in the Donbass, which were better provided from central reserves ".

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