During the Great Famine of 1922 in the city of Samara in the Volga region of Russia, a Russian collected the corpses of starving and starving peasants and transported them by cart to the mass grave in Salama.

    During the great famine in Samara, Volga region, Russia, in 1922, Russians collected the corpses of starving and starving peasants and transported them by cart to the mass grave in Salama. The problems of the Russian peasantry were exacerbated by the collapse of order caused by World War I and the Russian Civil War, which led to an increase in the number of deaths from starvation.

　The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, reduced the power of the peasantry by depriving them of food; the Great Russian Famine, which lasted from 1921 to 1922, killed some 5 million more people. The economic crisis caused by World War I, the Russian Civil War that lasted for five years, and the drought of 1921 resulted in the Great Famine, which malnourished about 30 million Russians. The worst affected area was the city of Samara, at the confluence of the Volga and Samara rivers in southeastern Russia. Lenin died in 1924, shortly after the famine, and Joseph Stalin later became leader of the Soviet Union. in the 1920s, the Russian famine starved some 25 million people in the vast Russian Volga and Urals river basins. in the 1930s, Stalin's campaign to collectivize agriculture and eradicate rich farmers, Great famines (khorodomor) occurred from Ukraine to all parts of the Soviet Union.

　The city of Samara, in particular, was one of the hardest hit areas by the Russian Civil War, which ordered the confiscation of food from peasant farms to supply food to the Red Army units that were advancing war communism, worsening the plight of the people. Furthermore, Samara's average May rainfall of 38.8 meters fell in 1921 with only 0.3 meters, followed by a deep frost that left millions facing starvation. Samara citizens were forced to eat grass, dirt, dogs, cats, and leather harnesses. Starvation was so widespread that people began ingesting unimaginable amounts of human flesh to survive.

   Frittjof Nansen, a Swedish-born Arctic explorer, devised the Nansen Passport for Russian refugees who had no identity or nationality papers. The stateless person's identity card was recognized by more than 50 foreign governments, allowing Russian refugees to cross the border legally. The initial Russian refugee status was extended to other refugees; in November 1922, Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1922.