Population of the Bolshoy Patom tract: thnodemographic and economic characteristics (based on materials of the 1897 and 1917 censuses)

In: Vestnik Severo-Vostočnogo federalʹnogo universiteta imeni M.K. Ammosova: Vestnik of North-Eastern Federal University. Serija "Istorija, politilogija, pravo" = Series "History, political science, law", Heft 4, S. 95-101

Abstract

The relevance of this study is due to the need to study the nature and characteristics of the socio-economic processes that took place in small settlements of the Yakut region at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. Many people in Yakutia lived in small villages, lost in the taiga, on the bends of rivers and alas. If in the central regions of the Russian Empire there was a rapid development of capitalism, then on its outskirts, if there were changes, they were in nascent forms. The purpose of this study is to study the changes that took place in the village of Bolshoi Patom, Olyokminsky district. To achieve this goal, we set ourselves the following tasks: to study archival material – census records of the First General Census of 1897 and the Agricultural Census of 1917; analyze the changes taking place in the village; establish the size, national composition, and activities of the population; identify the features of socio-economic processes that occurred over the 20 years between censuses. We used the following methods: the principle of historicism, the descriptive method, historical-comparative analysis, when studying census forms, we used the statistical method.