 Complete the following phrase:  According to Ukrainian and Russian archives, the first Ukrainians arrived in Central Asia in the mid-18th century. The first mass settlement of Ukrainians in Turkestan began in 1885 and by 1897, the first permanent settlements appeared in the Samarkand Region, with Ukrainian language schools and other Ukrainian traditions being observed. During the Great Patriotic War, thousands of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR were evacuated to Soviet Uzbekistan. In the aftermath of the 