Ethnic Composition of the Population of Pereiaslav District of Kyiv Area: According to Statistical Materials of the 1926 Census

Author

Skliar Volodymyr

a Doctor of History, a professor, a leading research fellow at 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/0000-0003-0020-5973

Ethnic Composition of the Population of Pereiaslav District of Kyiv Area: According to Statistical Materials of the 1926 Census

Abstract

Ethnodemographic studies occupy a prominent place in modern Ukrainian Ethnology. Statistical materials concerning the quantity and ethnic composition of the population, particularly the materials of the 1926 census, are an important source in conducting research on ethnodemographic processes in the 1920s in the Kyiv area, including Pereiaslav district. These unique statistical materials are in the «special storage» and have not been accessible to scientists since the early 1930s. They have been returned to scientific circulation only after the period when Ukraine gains independence. The calculations are made and a table is compiled on the number and ethnic composition of the population of Pereiaslav district, taking into account the ethnic composition of the population of the district center and the rural population of the district based on the processing of the materials of the 1926 census.

Pereiaslav district, as a separate administrative-territorial unit, has existed from March 1923 to July 2020. In 1926 it has included the city of Pereiaslav and 36 village councils, and the rural network consisted of 70 settlements. The level of urbanization of the district᾿s population was then quite insignificant – 19,58 % (15,466 people out of 78,971 people). Namely only every 5th resident of Pereiaslav region in 1926 has belonged to the urban population, and the absolute majority of the inhabitants is concentrated in rural areas – 63,505 people. Pereiaslav district is characterized by ethnic homogeneity of the population, absolute dominance in terms of numbers of Ukrainians on its territory against the background of isolated representatives of ethnic minorities, settled dispersedly. A small-scale type of settlement of Jews is observed only in the district center.

Keywords

Pereiaslav district, Kyiv area, number and ethnic composition of the population, Ukrainians, ethnic minorities, 1926 census.

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