THE CHANGES IN POPULATION AND CLASS COMPOSITION OF POPULATION OF PROVINCES AND COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH OF CENTRAL RUSSIA IN 1810-1830s

The relevance of historical-demographic researches is in study of very complex sphere in the history of agrarian (traditional) communities - dynamics of population changes and influence of this process on all social-economical way of life. The changing number and class composition of the population of the provinces and counties of South-Central Russia in 1810-1830 are studied. Discrepancies in the statistical data of different sources, the inability to determine the exact number of class composition fluctuations and dependence of fluctuations in population size from serfdom are detected. The study identified features of demographic processes in various provinces and counties of the large southern region of Central Russia. They appeared mainly in that the areas of the old settlement - Oryol, Ryazan and Tula provinces adjacent to them the Nizhniy Novgorod province - the growth rate of the number of inhabitants has been somewhat alleviated. In the southern most provinces of the region, the Voronezh and Tambov - these rates remained high. Particularly noticeable phenomenon became almost a widespread decline in the number of men in black earth provinces (with the exception of Tambov) after the war of 1812. Ups and downs occurred unevenly among the residents in some villages in the region. But everywhere the high correlation coefficient remains population growth and magnitude of serfdom.

demography, South of Central Russia, inspection, statistics, population base, class