title: Return of Crimean Tatars to the Crimea before 1989 as a Research Problem
abstract: The article examines an under-researched issue of the return of deported Crimean Tatars to their Homeland in 1967–1989 using new sources obtained by methods of oral history. According to the analysis of the existing historiography made in this article, there is a lack of research dealing with issues of the return of Crimean Tatars in 1967–1989. Indeed, the studies of forced migration, including those in the Soviet Union, concentrate usually on the issue of moving in one direction, leaving aside 
journal: NaUKMA Research Papers History