Ethnic Composition of the Rural Population and Deputies of Village Councils of the Districts of Mohyliv Area of Eastern Podillia in the Mid-1920s

Author

Masnenko Nazarii

a second-year postgraduate student of the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7263-2806

Ethnic Composition of the Rural Population and Deputies of Village Councils of the Districts of Mohyliv Area of Eastern Podillia in the Mid-1920s

Abstract

The article is based on archival documents and materials of the 1926 census. The ethnic composition of the rural population and village councils of the Mohyliv area is defined. It is determined that the rural population of the Mohyliv area as well as the village councils, has been characterized by ethnic homogeneity, Ukrainians predominate significantly everywhere. The presence of certain groups of ethnic minorities, such as Jews, Poles, and Russians, although their share is insignificant among the total population, can be observed only in separate village councils. It has been proven that the share of Ukrainians and national minorities among the deputies of village councils in general is proportional to their share among the total number of the rural population.

Keywords

ethnic composition, Ukrainians, ethnic minorities, rural population, deputies of village councils, Mohyliv area.

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