Evolution of Migration Interaction of the Kirov Region with the Soviet and Post- Soviet Baltics

Abstract

For a long period of time, the Kirov oblast acts as a donor region in internal migration. The aim of the work is the analysis of migrations from the Kirov region to Baltic in 1946–2020. It is relevant to consider the migration interaction of the two territories with the involvement of an inseparable array of archival data over a long period of time. The work provides a review of data sources on internal interregional migration in the period after the end of World War II to the present. The conclusion is drawn on the incomparability in time of the indicators of the volumes of relocation and the need to use additional tools for a retrospective analysis of inter-regional migration ties. For this purpose, it is proposed to calculate the coefficients of the intensity of migration ties and the coefficients of the effectiveness of migration exchange. Based on the current accounting data, a periodization of population migration is proposed, for each period the intensity and effectiveness of migration ties of the Kirov region with St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the Kaliningrad region, as well as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia during their entry into the USSR are determined. Analysis of interregional migration in 1989–2015 supplemented by census and microcensus data. The most intensively and effectively for the Baltic regions the resettlement was carried out in the period after the end of the war until the end of the 1980s. Subsequently, the intensity of departures from the Kirov region and the proportion of natives in the population of the Baltic regions decreased. Migration ties with the Kaliningrad region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region were more intense than with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, even during their entry into the USSR.