The exhibition “In Search of Lost Villages” (Kadunud külade otsingul) focused on the Siberian villages where those deported from Kehra train station were sent. We concentrated on two villages that sit on either side of the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk Krai – Chistoye Pole and Lugovskaya. The village of Lugavskaya no longer exists with only barely noticeable references to its existence still visible in the landscape. Chistoye Pole is still a vibrant village, but it has changed unrecognisably since the 1960s.
 
The exhibition also included objects that were silent witnesses to the deportation: things that were brought from Estonia to Siberia; tools that were taken along and ended up being lifesavers, things cobbled together in Siberia; things bought in Siberia as well as things that were regained upon returning to Estonia.
 
The deportation train left Kehra train station on 27 March 1949 with 918 people, of whom 441 were women and 291 children.
 
Our programme included hanging a sign bearing the name “Abakan” on the Kehra train station building and planting a Novosibirsk bird cherry tree in the immediate vicinity of the former train station building.