Soviet Central Asia served during the Stalinist era as one of the regions where politically unreliable persons where exiled by the communist regime. Some of them were people of extraordinary merits both scientific or artistic. Exile in harsh conditions of Central Asia steppes should have been detrimental to their further activities. But as the life stories of three different personalities show here (Klaudiya Antipina, Anna Pankratova and Igor Savitsky), even difficult and hostile environment does not stop truly creative and open mind to continue in the search for new discoveries and new accomplishments., Martina Varkočková., and Obsahuje seznam literatury