Krivonozhenko, A. F. REFUGEES IN KARELIA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 8. P. 62–71. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.551


Russian history

REFUGEES IN KARELIA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Krivonozhenko
A. F. 		Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
refugees
World War I
Karelia
peasantry
Kem district
Olonets province		 Summary: In the twentieth century, the ethnic situation in Karelia was repeatedly changed because of internal and external migration. The first significant influx of nonethnic population into the region was the arrival of refugees from the enemy-occupied western provinces in the summer and autumn of 1915. Migration practices of the Soviet era and internal migration to Karelia in the 1990s were reflected in the research literature. At the same time, the presence of refugees in Karelia during the First World War is a little-studied problem. It determines the novelty of the article. Archival and published sources are analyzed using both Ggeneral historical and statistical methods. The study found that the number of refugees in Karelia did not exceed 550 people, which was 0,1 % of the region’s population on the eve of the war. Despite the diverse ethnic origin of the immigrants, they could not significantly affect the national and religious composition of the population of Karelia. In addition, it was found that due to a number of factors, the refugees did not make any visible contribution to the economy of the region, although local Zemstvos wanted more active participation of migrants in the economic life of Karelia.



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