Chernysheva N.V., Sitnikova E.L., Azhigulova A.I. Ethnic minorities in Siberia and the Far East in 1939-1959: main reproduction trends. Peoples and Religions of Eurasia. 2025. Vol. 30. No. 3. P. 172-193. (in Russian). DOI 10.14258nreur(2025)3–10.

Abstract

The article is devoted to ethnic minorities living in Siberia and the Far East in 1939–1959. The purpose of the publication is to identify the main trends in the reproduction of ethnic minorities in Siberia and the Far East in the late 1930 years and late 1950 years, which were included in the statistical sample of the Central Control Commission of the USSR. The sources of the research were archival materials and the results of the All-Union population censuses of 1939 and 1959. The theoretical and methodological basis of the scientific publication was the theory of demographic transition with the identification of regional and national characteristics of individual territories. The research methodology is represented by general scientific, historical and statistical methods. In the USSR in the 1930 years and 1950 years, the demographic transition had its own distinctive features due to its discontinuity, socio-economic processes (industrialization and urbanization), internal and external political events, the most important of which are the famine of the 1930 years and the post-war famine, the Great Patriotic War, the specifics of settlement, national characteristics, etc. The authors conducted a regional section of reproduction of individual ethnic minorities (Ukrainians, Belarusians, Tatars, Kazakhs, Jews, Armenians) Siberia and the Far East, which showed differences in demographic behavior, consistent with the general trends characteristic of the second phase of the demographic transition.