Abstract
For the several centuries the population of the European part of Russia has been migrating to the Eastern and North-Eastern peripheral regions of the vast country. The comfortable areas were colonized as well as the deserted ones with severe climate conditions. The cossacks were the first who populated new lands. Some decades after it the peasants followed such strategy. Forced migration of Gulag prisoners and convicts played an important role in migrations during the Soviet period (although the resettlement of prisoners were in pre-revolutionary times too). In the 2-nd half of 20-th century the internal migration in Russia experienced a dramatic change. Since then a massive escape from recently occupied lands has been observed. The fall of the Soviet Union has accelerated the return migrations. In the paper the basic patterns of internal migration in Russia are specified and analyzed on the data of Russian Censuses. Russian regions are also classified by their migration characteristics. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p572
Highlights
The internal migrations in Russia had the wavy character: sometimes they shrank, and sometimes they overwhelmed more and more newly annexed territories
The program of Russian censuses development for a number of reasons was planned in such a way that the only question “available” and remaining in few censuses was the question about the place of birth, necessary for the analysis of migrations
After the collapse of Soviet Union and establishing of market economy in the country, there was increasing of regions number with migration outflow situated in Siberia as well in the Far East
Summary
The internal migrations in Russia had the wavy character: sometimes they shrank, and sometimes they overwhelmed more and more newly annexed territories. As a rule, the census data demonstrates the high precision of the response on the question about the place of birth because it is clear to people. The drawback of this question is impossibility of defining of migrations number and exact date of moving, and of returned migrants singling out. The program of Russian censuses development for a number of reasons was planned in such a way that the only question “available” and remaining in few censuses was the question about the place of birth, necessary for the analysis of migrations
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