Сярод дэпартаваных народаў у СССР трэба асобна адзначыць пантыйскіх грэкаў. Спачатку яны апынуліся ў Грузіі, куды ўцяклі ад разаніны ў Турэччыне. А ўжо адтуль Сталін іх саслаў у Цэнтральную Азію.
У якасьці культурнага сьледа, які яны пакінулі ў рэгіёне, можна згадаць такога сьпявака, як Лакі Кесаглу. Вось ён, напрыклад, услаўляе прыгажосьць Алматы:

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These gold coins are from my grandfather. My maternal grandparents, Pontic Greeks, were refugees from Turkey in early 1920's. He died at age of 105 & what little he had was converted to British gold coins - 2 have Queen Victoria & 1 has King Edward as heads & St George as tails.

I'm sharing coin pics because I've been researching Greeks who came from Anatolia (Turkey). I went to Bafra, Turkey in 2000 (this is where my grand parents came from) looking for people who may be connected with them. Below, after the coins is an excerpt from first page of book I'm writing about that experience.

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Armenia’s Pontic Greek Community Commemorates Genocide

On May 19 the community of Pontic Greeks of Armenia commemorates the Pontic Greek genocide and on May 21, the community invited Armen Khachikyan, an historian, to talk about the Pontic Greek genocide at the “Educational and cultural center on national minorities of the Prime Ministers’s staff” in Yerevan.

Pontic Greeks are historically from the Pontus area, a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. In the 18th century around 300 Greeks moved to Armenia’s Marneuli and Alaverdi areas to work in the copper mines. A large majority of those workers settled close to Alaverdi and founded the village of Madan. However, with the collapse of Soviet Union, many moved to Greece and it is estimated that now, less than 1000 Pontic Greek live in Armenia.

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