The Change in the National Composition of the Population of the Surgut Village Council During the Great Patriotic War
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.003
Abstract
Today, demographic issues in our country are becoming more relevant every day. This includes issues of historical demography as a tool for retrospective analysis. However, the lack and often contradictory sources do not remove the relevance of scientific discussion on these issues.
Huge human losses and the colossal movement of the masses during the Great Patriotic War changed the demographic «portraits» of many regions of the USSR. The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug was no exception: mobilization, special settlers, and indigenous minorities mirror demographic events in the country. Therefore, issues related to the movement of the population during the war period are relevant today.
However, researchers involved in the historical demography of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug during the Second World War face a number of problems, primarily the lack of a developed body of sources. Censuses cannot be fully used as the main source on this topic, since they were conducted in 1939 and 1959, i.e. they did not affect the period of interest.
The author used the books of village councils to reconstruct the demographic processes of the Second World War period more efficiently. The source is peculiar, requiring careful approach and criticism, but perhaps the only one that affects the period of the Second World War, since household books were filled in the period from 1940 to 1946. The author analyzes the population of the Surgut village Council, the changes that occurred during the war period in the gender and national structure of the population. Having built graphs of the processes, the author comes to the conclusion that the changes in the national composition of the district were quite significant, however, they occurred not as a result of filling the village council with repressed and displaced people, but as a result of a large decrease in the proportion of the Russian population of the village council.
About the Author
E. P. ShulgaRussian Federation
Shulga Evgeny Pavlovich — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Education
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Review
For citations:
Shulga E.P. The Change in the National Composition of the Population of the Surgut Village Council During the Great Patriotic War. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(3(96)):32-39. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.003