DYNAMICS OF THE NUMBER OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF THE LEFT-BANK PRICHULYM'E IN THE XVIII – FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of demographic processes on a narrow territorial subarea (left bank Prichulyme within the modern Kemerovo region). A methodical solution is to define comparable boundaries of administrativeterritorial division (on the county and the township levels, taking into account the composition of the settlements). The article identifies the factors that contributed to the agricultural colonization in the area (the passage of the Moscow-Siberian highway, openness of territory for new settlers, government events, the opening of gold mines, exile). One of the features of the process of population reproduction (state peasants) in comparison with ascribed volosts of the Middle Pritom’e was the dominance of mechanical growth over natural growth. The result was a much larger average annual growth rate of the state peasants (4.2 % and 0.96 % respectively), when the average number of state peasants per village was 3.7 times higher (295 and 78.7 of male population). In absolute terms, the number of state peasants as a result of the census register-X (1858) exceeded the bonded peasants (28011 and 25829 of men population respectively).

Keywords

• state peasants
• demography
• volost division
• the moscowsiberian tract
• left-bank prichulym'e