“Memory Lines” (Mälujoonised) is an artistic research project created in collaboration between artist Katarina Meister and deportees and their relatives. On the windows of the Tapa train station building we installed designs for monuments with which the deportees would like to commemorate what they experienced. The designs were created through dialogues between the deportees and those close to them, who then drew the monuments based on the descriptions. The initial concept for the exhibition was born from the fact that Tapa does not have a memorial to the March deportations, which meant it was the ideal location to hold discussions around remembering and commemorating. 48 train wagons left Tapa on 26 March 1949 with 1,064 people, of whom 543 were women and 327 children. The destinations of the train were Uzhur and Abakan, 5,000 kilometres away. For this reason we hung an “Uzhur” sign on the Tapa train station building and there was a series of photographs of the present day Uzhur train station in the waiting room of the bus station. Our programme included hanging a sign bearing the name “Uzhur” on the Tapa train station building and planting a Novosibirsk bird cherry tree nearby.