Chaplygina, D. A. DEMOGRAPHY OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF KOLA DISTRICT ON THE MATERIALS OF THE STATEMENT OF 1764. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(4):59–64. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.618


Russian history

DEMOGRAPHY OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF KOLA DISTRICT ON THE MATERIALS OF THE STATEMENT OF 1764

Chaplygina
D. A. 		Murmansk Arctic State University
Keywords:
Kola district
governor E. A. Golovtsyn
demography
pomors
yard
family		 Summary: The problem presented in the title of the article is within the framework of the current historiographic trend – the historical demography of Russia. The study of statistical sources makes it possible to reveal the size and structure of the population, settlement, marriage and family relations, age, regional features of demographic development. The novelty of the research is associated with the absence in historiography of special studies of the demography of the Kola district in the 16th–18th centuries – the outskirts of the Russian North with a multiethnic composition of the population. The object of the research is the statistical sheet of 1764, compiled by order of the Arkhangelsk governor E. A. Golovtsyn. The statement covers all settlements of the Kola district, regardless of their ethnic composition (Russian, Sami, Karelian), and includes data on the yards and the composition of families living in them, household and occupation. The study made it possible to come to the following conclusions: the statement records the growth of the Russian population (men) of the county in comparison with the data of the first revision of 1719; the composition of the court was represented mainly by one family; the predominant type of family was families of direct kinship, including two generations of relatives. Subsequently, the study of the demographic development of the Sami and Karelians will make it possible to compare the available results and to reveal the peculiarities of the composition of the population of the Kola district in the second half of the 18th century.



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