THE CHANGE IN THE DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF DAGESTAN POPULATION IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MIGRATION PROCESSES

An attempt to trace the influence of migration on the changing demographic structure of the population of Dagestan in the late XIX - early XX century was made. The development problems of the history of migration processes in Dagestan in the XIX - beginning of XX centuries is an integral part of the historical and demographic study of the region is an urgent and important task. This kind of study necessary for the reconstruction of socio-economic and demographic history of the region, the creation of a science-based concept of migration policy not only in a such a labour-abundant region as Dagestan, but regional demographic policy in the Russian Federation as a whole. The basic part of population was in constrain life circumstances with limited nutrition and all turmoil, break in crop yield of bread, murrain and etc. disasters caused mass exodus of male population over the borders of Dagestan looking for job. This caused the bad birth rate and bad natural increase of region’s population. The assigned problem has both scientific interest and policy relevance in the context of the demographic crisis in Russia and the related difficulties of preserving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a number of border regions of the Russian Federation, where the outflow of the population is coming from. The research is fulfilled on the basis of annual reports of the governors of the Dagestan region, was published in the form of Reviews on the Dagestan region and other statistical and literary sources.

the demographic structure of the population of Dagestan, migration, population, sources of population growth, Dagestan oblast, the peasants-immigrants, economic factors, demographic crisis, natural growth of the population of the Dagestan region, seasonal migration, population census