The dates, numbers of deportations, and numbers of deportees given in the biblical accounts vary. Later, they were charged with escorting the convoys of Armenian deportees. Chechen sources claim that 400,000 perished presuming a higher number of deportees. An unknown number of deportees perished during the process. Other crew were made up of deportees and criminals from Spain and the colonies. Including 4,000 of the deportees who survived, the total number of survivors was around 23,000. Instead 4,200 new deportees who arrived from Tomsk were housed in these settlements. Conditions were harsh and many of the deportees died. Agricultural land were also given to the deportees. About 1,200 additional deportees arrived on May 27. The majority of the deportees were rounded up from the Crimean countryside. Among the deportees were about 4,500 Poles. Majority of the Lithuanian deportees were employed by the logging and timber industry. An enormous number of the deportees died from exposure and overwork. Only 1,200 of the deportees survived the war.