My Soviet-Korean family
Sergey Magay fled Korea for imperial Russia when he was only a child. But after building a life in the rural hinterlands between Vladivostok and North Korea — working at a fishery, as a secretary and as a school teacher — he fell victim to the forced deportations of the paranoid Stalinist regime. Some 172,000 ethnic Koreans forcibly relocated from Russia’s Far East in 1937, mostly to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
It was these family images from Sergey’s life in Tashkent that captured the imagination of his grandson, Stanislav. Infused with the carefree atmosphere of perestroika, the images reveal family summers at a home where Soviet and Korean culture lay gently intertwined.
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