Bolgary v regionah Urala v 1920—1930-e gg.: formirovanie i razvitie etnodispersnoj gruppy

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of migration processes of the Bulgarians to the Ural regions, the formation and development of Bulgarian communities in the 1920s - 1930s. The main sources of the study include archival documents, especially the materials of investigation cases and statistical outputs that are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The study defines two migration flows of the Bulgarians to the Ural - from the places of their traditional settlement in the Western regions of the USSR due to collectivization and dispossession of kulaks and from different regions of Bulgaria - as a consequence of political emigration. Ural Bulgarians that came to the region as a result of voluntary and forced migrations took part in industrialization process and worked mainly in industrial enterprises and forestry administration. Many of them were subjected to repressions during the period of 1937-1938.