INFLUENCE OF MIGRATORY PROCESSES ON FORMATION OF URBAN POPULATION IN KRASNOYARSKY KRAI IN 1954 – 1984

Abstract

Migration is the overriding factor of formation of the population of reclaimed territories and a significant factor in urban population development. In the second half of the XXth century the active migrations directed from the west to the east and back and from the village to the city were detected. In Krasnoyarsky Krai inflow of migrants was one of the biggest in the country, however, the number of those leaving the city was almost as high as the number of those arriving, which formed a negative attitude to migration as the cause of lumpenization of urban environment. The thesis proved in the article is migrations have become a source of urban development and defined urban social environment. Despite the migration flows on the territory of the region had a transit character, a certain part of migrants settled in the cities and became permanent residents. Although natives from the Siberian villages were the most numerous group, it was migrants from the European part of Russia who defined the quality of the population. Small non industrial towns lost their population as well as villages. The low level of urban amenities provision together with the growing demands of the population who already adopted urban way of life caused the migration outflow of in 1970s and 1980s which could not be compensated by migration inflow from the countryside.

Keywords

• migration
• urbanization
• city
• population
• positive migration balance
• krasnoyarsk krai
• second half of the xx century