Strategies for the demographic behavior of the rural population of the south of Central Russia in 1959–2010 at the district level
https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-183-244-251
Abstract
We consider a poorly studied topic related to the rural population movement at the level of particular regions. We study the districts of five regions of the Central Black Earth Region and adjacent regions over a long historical period of the late Soviet society and early of the post-Soviet period. We reveal dozens of facts of formal changes in the population of certain regions associated with administrative and territorial changes, especially with the transfer of a number of rural settlements to urban-type settlements or inclusion in the city boundaries. We establish that the prevailing, but not the only direction of demographic processes in 1959–2010 was a decrease in the number of inhabitants mainly under the influence of urbanization, and in the group of districts due to the Chernobyl disaster. We reveal that throughout the entire period remained a certain number of regions with developed industry, suburban agriculture, and transport infrastructure (in 2010 – 20 %), where the rural population grew. In the 1989–2010 period the depopulation rate in most other districts has slowed down compared to the previous segment. We draw conclusion that the thesis of the widespread and rapid extinction of the rural population does not have a factual basis.
Keywords
historical demography,
rural population,
rural districts,
Central Black Earth Region,
demographic factors
Supporting agencies: The study is fulfilled with support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 18-18-00187 “Strategies for the demographic behavior of the rural population of the south of Central Russia in the 20th – early 21st centuries”
About the Author
N. A. Zhirov
Bunin Yelets State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikolay A. Zhirov, Candidate of History, Associate Professor of History and Historic-Cultural Heritage Department
26 Kommunarov St., Yelets 399770, Lipetsk Region
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Zhirov N.A. Strategies for the demographic behavior of the rural population of the south of Central Russia in 1959–2010 at the district level. Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities. 2019;24(183):244-251. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-183-244-251
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