Lyudmila Nikolaevna Slavina,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafyev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How the Population of the Siberian Village has Changed. The Demographic Consequences of Its Radical Transformation
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-4-15
In the article, using the example of the rural population of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the problem of the nature and degree of influence of radical reforms on the demographic sphere of the village in the 1990–2000s is studied. On the basis of statistics, three groups of processes that determined the reproduction of the population are analyzed: mechanical movement, shifts in demographic structures, and natural increase. The processes in the villages of the region are compared with those in the Krasnoyarsk cities and villages of Russia as a whole. Long-term factors and specific reasons for strong changes in indicators in time series and deviations from the average Russian parameters are identified. It has been established that with the general radical transformation of the village, its demographic sphere has not changed radically, but strongly. The trends formed earlier continued to develop in the same direction. The regional processes took place in the context of the all-Russian, but at a higher pace, had a common quality with them, but differed in parameters. They continued to modernize, which is evidenced by the aging of the birth rate, a sharp decline in infant mortality and other signs. Since 1993, the regime of population reproduction has deteriorated fundamentally – the expanded growth has been replaced by depopulation. It is proven that the reason for this was not the reforms. In the new era, rural society was already in a state of demographic crisis, and reforms have aggravated it. Krasnoyarsk residents suffered especially heavy demographic losses. They had a higher rate of decline in numbers, aging, and an increase in mortality from all diseases. If at the turn of the 1990s most of their demographic characteristics were better than those of the rural population of Russia as a whole, they soon lost their advantages. The study once again reminds us that due to the uneven demographic development of territories and different groups of the population, their differentiated study is necessary, taking into account the all-Russian long-term development trends. This is the only way to understand the nature and strength of the impact of extreme changes in Russia on the reproduction of the population, its current state and development prospects.
Publishing: 28/08/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 16/05/2023
How to cite: Slavina L.N. How the Population of the Siberian Village has Changed. The Demographic Consequences of Its Radical Transformation // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 4 (30), pp. 203–217. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-4-15.pdf]
Links: Issue 4 2023
Keywords: post-Soviet decades; rural population reproduction; depopulation; Krasnoyarsk Krai; Siberia