…In Accordance with Passport Regulations : Mass Expulsion of Insecure Citizens from the Far East of the USSR in 1930s

. The article, basing on the analysis of the archive published and unpublished data, books of condolence, witnesses’ recollections, presents extended characteristics of mass compulsory expulsions from the Soviet Far East, realized in order to “houseclean” as a preventive security measure. Such acts were not ethnical in nature. Their aim was to grant region the status of secure territory and introduce passport limitations. Three campaigns, involving not less than 150 thousand people in total: 1) population passportization (1933–1934); 2) expulsion of families of the victims of Bolshoi Terror (1937–1939), 3) expulsion of the so-called insecure population of the Primorsky Region (1939) was analyzed. The author concludes that they had the form of Stalin’s mass deportations, aimed at the formation of discriminated social groups