Zverev Vladimir A.,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia; Chief Research Officer, Institute of History Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Vinichenko Natalya V.,
Student, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Background of the City of Kemerovo: Demographic and Infrastructure Dynamics of the Proto-Urban Settlements in Tom in 1850–1920
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-4-3
In the 18th century, Russian settlements appeared in the middle reaches of the Tom river: Ust-Iskitimskoe village, Kemerovo villages, Krasny Yar, Kuro-Iskitimskaya, Davydova, Borovaya, Evseeva and Kedrovka. Their bicentennial history is of great interest, as in the first third of the 20th century, the city of Kemerovo was formed based on them, and by now it has become one of the largest economical, administrative, and cultural centers in the east of the country. This article provides data on positive changes that took place in 1850–1920 among the above-mentioned proto-urban settlements and in individual settlements. The Lists of the Populated Places of the Tomsk Province (registration of the intrasettlement and intersettlement situation of 1859, 1878, 1885, 1893, 1899, 1904, 1911, and 1920) and the Lists of the Populated Places of the Siberian Region for 1926, complied on a regular basis by the regional statistical agencies, served as the main source of information for the research. Authors characterize the historical dynamics of the number of local peasant farms, population, its social and gender composition, populousness of households, sizes of communal land tenure. It is found that in the proto-urban complex during the period under review, due to the high natural growth of population and especially on grounds of the massive influx of the agricultural settlers, and, at the final stage, of industrial migrants as well, the number of residents and peasant farms was growing rapidly. In the course of time, the populousness of peasant households decreased, the proportion of men in the population to maintain stability. The area of the so-called cabinet lands that were “convenient” for agricultural processing and used by rural communities on a permanent and unlimited basis, decreased. By the end of the 19th century, more and more elements of the settlement infrastructure that was unusual for the traditional rural society had appeared: schools, industrial and shopping units. In the early 20th century, the city of Scheglovsk and the Kemerovo work settlement were formed on this foundation under the influence of the Yurga –Kolchugino railway construction with a branch to Scheglovo, as well as in response to the coal mines and chemical factory construction, and after expanding boundaries of the city of Scheglovsk, the whole rural proto-city was integrated into the Kemerovo city structure.
Publishing: 30/08/2019
How to cite: Zverev V.A., Vinichenko N.V. Background of the City of Kemerovo: Demographic and Infrastructure Dynamics of the Proto-Urban Settlements in Tom in 1850–1920 // Historical Courier, 2019, # 4 (6). Article3. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-4-03.pdf
Links: Issue 4 2019
Keywords: Kemerovo Town; background the city of Kemerovo; Siberian village; proto-urban settlements; population dynamics; settlement dynamics