UDC

93+314.9

Authors

Smirnova Viktoriya Vyacheslavovna, Arkhangelsk Regional Institute of Retraining and Professional Development of Education Workers; Postgraduate Student, Institute of Social, Humanitarian and Political Sciences, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Abstract

The article describes the population of the regional centres of the European North of Soviet Russia (Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Vologda and Petrozavodsk) in the 1920s. It covers the issues of age and sex structure, ethnicity and religion. The author applies the method of prosopography to create a collective portrait of a city dweller in the 1920s.

Keywords

urban population, sex and age composition, ethnic composition, religion.

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