Chernysheva N.V. (2025) On the issue of studying the population and territories annexed to the RSFSR after the end of World War II. Reports of the Laboratory of Ancient Technologies. Vol. 21. No. 4. P. 137-146. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.21285 ...

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of studying the population and territories annexed to the RSFSR after the end of World War II. It is noted that the historiography of the issue is represented by studies of the post-Soviet period, in which three blocks of scientific questions can be distinguished: the first is research devoted to the study of the population of the RSFSR; the second is the historical and demographic work of scientists in the Far East; the third is research on the population of the Kaliningrad region. The author defines four areas of study of these issues: administrative-territorial division; population size and compositionreproduction processes; population migration. It is noted that the primary task in the annexed territories was the transition to the Soviet socio-political and socio-economic model. The changes concerned the system of territorial management by means of the introduction of the administrative-territorial division system characteristic of the USSR, accompanied by the renaming of territorial units. Simultaneously with repatriation, the territories were populated by Soviet citizens, mainly from the regions, territories and autonomous republics of the RSFSR. Until the early 1950s, the population of the annexed territories increased (in the Kaliningrad region throughout the 1950s). Representatives of different nations arrived in the regions. A characteristic feature of the post-war period was the younger age structure of the population of these territories. The processes of population reproduction in the second half of the 1940s – 1950s had their own specifics, more pronounced in the first post-war five-year period and manifested mainly in the high birth and marriage rates, higher mortality rates. From the point of view of migration, the development of the territories occurred in two processes: repatriation and settlement. The implementation of these directions allowed changing the comp osition of the population of the annexed territories and ensured their integration into the Soviet Union.