СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ ПРИГРАНИЧНЫХ РЕГИОНОВ РОССИИ И БЕЛАРУСИ В ПОСТСОВЕТСКИЙ ПЕРИОД

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of historical features that bring together the demographic development of the Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk regions from the Belarusian side and the Bryansk, Smolensk and Pskov regions from the Russian side, characterizes their migration interaction and its impact on the national composition of the population, as well as the specificity of the reproduction processes that thirty years in these six regions. The paper shows that although the fate of these regions is largely similar, nevertheless, in the Russian regions bordering on Belarus, the demographic dynamics turned out to be worse than in the Belarusian regions bordering on Russia. In the post-Soviet three decades, the population dynamics in the Belarusian and Russian border regions began to level out, both there and there, which entirely depended on the natural population decline. At the same time, the demographic situation in the border regions began to differ more from the average indicators for the countries, which is evident from the dynamics of the life expectancy of the population. The article also provides data on the number of Russians living in the border regions of Belarus and Belarusians living on the Russian side, which testify to the preservation of the previous ethnic proportions in the population of these regions.