Ethno-Demographic Processes and Formation of National Diasporas in the Yaroslavl Region (1989-2010)

Abstract

On the basis of population censuses of 1989, 2002 and 2010 the development of ethnodemographic processes and transformation of the ethnic structure of the population of the Yaroslavl region are analyzed. The features of the national composition of the population of the region on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, the classification of ethnic groups by their number and specific weight, the place of East Slavic and other peoples in the structure of the population of the region. Examines the changes in the population residing on the territory of the region ethnic groups in the period between the censuses 1989-2002 and 2002-2010, their absolute and relative population dynamics, the change of the specific weight in the composition of the population. Differences in the course of ethnodemographic processes - natural increase /decrease, migration and assimilation - among European and Asian ethnic groups were revealed. The changes that have occurred in the national structure of the population of the region by the time of the all-Russian census of 2010, and the main trends in the formation of national diasporas: the gradual attenuation of the "old" Ukrainian, Tatar and Belarusian communities that are subject to ethnic and cultural assimilation by the Russian majority, as well as the rapid numerical growth of "new" Transcaucasian, Central Asian and North Caucasian communities growing due to immigration from their traditional places of residence.