1. Return to Home Page Return to Home Page GEOG 433 Demographic Trends in Soviet & Post-Soviet Russia Slides for November 12, 2013

2. USSR/Russian demographic developments of the century Calamitous population lossesCalamitous population losses Rapid urbanizationRapid urbanization Massive internal migrationsMassive internal migrations

3. Estimates of USSR/Russian Population calamities –WWI & Civil War -2 million –Epidemics 1917-23 - 3 million –Famines, human-induced -5.5 million –Forced collectivization - 10 million –Famines & Purges of the 1930s - 15 million –World War II - Direct losses - 25-30 millionDirect losses - 25-30 million Population indirect effects -birth deficits - 15 millionPopulation indirect effects -birth deficits - 15 million –Total population deficits including “echo effects total ~ 150 million by 1991

4. Population of Former Soviet Republics

5. Population of Largest Cities

6. Population Density & Cities

7. Fig 7.1 Former USSR distribution of population

8. Languages of the former USSR

9. Table 7.1 Russia: birth rates, death rates & rates of natural increase per 1000, 1960-1991

10. Table 7.2 Russia: birth rates, death rates, rates of natural increase per 1000, 1991-96

11. Table 7.3, Birth, death & natural increase rates per 1000 population by selected region, 1995

12. Table 7.4 Migration trends in selected Russian regions, 1989-96 (in thousands

13. Fig 7.5 Development of Russian housing fund (millions of square meters)

14. Table 7.6 Russia: total and urban population 1917--96 (millions)

15. Table 7.7 Levels of urbanization across Russian economic regions, 1996 (in%)

16. Table 7.8 Size distribution of Russian urban settlements, 1996

17. Table 7.9 Level of urban development of Russian economic regions, 1989

18. Population pyramids 1989

19. Russia: Age-Sex Structure, January 1, 2001

20. Figure 7.2 Stalin’s projects Source: Blinnikov, 2011, p. 85.

21. Age-Sex Structure 1989-2001 comparison

22. Population Pyramid of Russia, 2010

23. Figure 10.3 Population pyramid for Russia in 2009. Source: Blinnikov, 2011, p. 143.

24. Projected population pyramid, 2050

25. Russia’s Largest 20 cities (2009 pop.) 1MoscowМоскваMoscow11,800,992 2Saint PetersburgСанкт-ПетербургSaint Petersburg4,900,520 3NovosibirskНовосибирскNovosibirsk1,397,191 4YekaterinburgЕкатеринбургSverdlovsk1,332,264 5Nizhny NovgorodНижний НовгородNizhny Novgorod1,272,527 6SamaraСамараSamara1,164 900 7KazanКазаньTatarstan1,143 600 8OmskОмскOmsk1,129,120 9ChelyabinskЧелябинскChelyabinsk1,093,699 10Rostov-on-DonРостов-на-ДонуRostov1,048,991 11UfaУфаBashkortostan1,024,842 12VolgogradВолгоградVolgograd1,021,200 13PermПермьPerm985,794 14KrasnoyarskКрасноярскKrasnoyarsk 947,801 15VoronezhВоронежVoronezh843,496 16SaratovСаратовSaratov830,953 17TolyattiТольяттиSamara720,346 18KrasnodarКраснодарKrasnodar710,686 19IzhevskИжевскUdmurtia611,043 20YaroslavlЯрославльYaroslavl606,336 Rosstat (2009)

26. Russia: total fertility rate 1960-2000

27. Russia: Marriage and Divorce rates, 1970-2001

28. Russia: Share of births outside Marriage, 1970-2000

29. Russia: Abortion rate and ratio, 1989-2000

30. Russia: Life Expectancy by Sex, 1960-2001

31. Male Death Rates by Cause in Russia & the EU, 1994-95