Maria A. Ovcharova,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Oral History Sources in the Study of Agricultural Migrations of the Mordvins and Formation of Settlements in the Eastern Part of Siberia in the 1930s–1940s
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-5-6
In the Soviet Union, much attention was paid to the planned migration policy from different regions, in which a wide variety of ethnic groups participated. Until recently, issues related to certain aspects of resettlement have not been fully studied. This is often due to a lack of a source base. This was especially true for to the agricultural settlers from the European part of Russia, the Mordvins, Chuvash, Komi-Permians, who rushed to the Siberian region. Agricultural settlers of the Soviet period became a new stream that formed zones of mono-ethnic and mixed regions of residence of the Mordvins and Chuvash people in the region. To form a complete picture of this period, a versatile source base is required, since only the totality of source data will allow us to present the historical process of gradual migration of the Mordvins to the regions of Siberia. As a result of an oral history interview, the author was able to build a historical chain of formation of the artisanal settlement of the Mordvins-Moksha on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk territory, the Altai region of Khakassia.
Publishing: 30/10/2020
The article has been received by the editor on 07.07.2020
How to cite: Ovcharova M.A. Oral History Sources in the Study of Agricultural Migrations of the Mordvins and Formation of Settlements in the Eastern Part of Siberia in the 1930s–1940s // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 5 (13), pp. 70–82. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-5-06.pdf
Links: Issue 5 2020
Keywords: oral history; historical interviews; media; agricultural migrations of the mordvins; mono-ethnic settlements