Dynamics of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province in 1871–1910

• Published in: Исторический журнал: научные исследования no. 2; pp. 54 - 79
• Main Author: Seleznev, Andrey Valerievich
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.02.2025
• ISSN: 2454-0609; 2454-0609
• DOI: 10.7256/2454-0609.2025.2.74085

The subject of the study is the change in the dynamics of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province in 1871–1910 under the influence of the imperial social and legal policy towards the Yenisei Cossacks. The chronological boundaries of the study are determined by two factors: organizational and legal (the period after the Cossack estate reform in 1871) and the availability of an array of data suitable for scientific analysis (reports on the state of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province for 1878-1906). To achieve this goal, the author identified quantitative and qualitative indicators characterizing the demographic behavior of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province in 1871–1910, analyzed the dynamics of socio-demographic indicators of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province over the period under study and compared them with the corresponding demographic indicators of the rural (peasant) population of the Yenisei province, revealed the relationship between the socio-legal policy of the imperial government and demographic behavior of the Yenisei Cossacks. The main factor in the growth of the Cossack population of the Yenisei province during the study period was the natural increase in the population due to an increase in the birth rate and a decrease in mortality. During the study period, the proportion of women in the total Cossack population of the Yenisei province was greater than the proportion of the male population. At the same time, in Siberia during this period, the male population prevailed over the female. The migration factor of the increase in the population of the Yenisei province as a whole did not affect the growth of the Cossack population of the province during the period under study.