Minus six (exile) explained

The minus six was a form of exile imposed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, which banned the subject from living in or visiting any of the union's six largest cities as well as border territories.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Cities banned

• Moscow (now in Russia)
• Petrograd (known as Leningrad from 1924, now Saint Petersburg in Russia)
• Kiev (now Kyiv in Ukraine)
• Kharkov (now Kharkiv in Ukraine)
• Yekaterinburg (known as Sverdlovsk from 1924, now Yekaterinburg in Russia)
• Tiflis (now Tbilisi in Georgia)

Notes and References

1. Book: Badcock . Sarah . . 2018 . Russia and the Soviet Union from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century . Clare Anderson . A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies . Bloomsbury . 274 . 9781350000674 . https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/58808/9781350000681.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y . 10.5040/9781350000704 .
2. Web site: A Gentleman at Ursinus . . 6 April 2018 . en.
3. Book: Smith . Douglas . Former people: the final days of the Russian aristocracy . 2012 . Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . New York . 978-0-374-15761-6 . 247 . First .