Sources of Population Records of Early Yekaterinburg: Peculiarities and Information Potential
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https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2023.3.816Keywords:
history of the Urals, Yekaterinburg, population, demographic history, censuses, primary source studyAbstract
This article studies the demographic history of Yekaterinburg in the second quarter of the eighteenth century. The authors focus on the population changes in the city between 1723 and 1744. This issue remains relevant since currently, there are no books or articles that would provide consistent data on the number of residents who settled near the Yekaterinburg plant. The analysis of historiography demonstrates that a significant part of scholars provide information about the composition and population of the city only for some years of its existence, without explaining the features of the primary sources underlying their research. This, in turn, has led to the fact that historians are split when it comes to estimates of the population of the fortress factory in the first years of its existence. In connection with the celebration of the city’s tercentenary, the researchers’ appeal to the history of the population of Yekaterinburg in the second quarter of the eighteenth century becomes even more significant. The work aims to analyse the features and information capabilities of primary sources containing data on the population of the fortress and plant. The main research methods include methods of primary source studies. In addition, the authors use the comparative method and method of system analysis, as well as the method of diachronic analysis. Employing these methods, the authors establish the approximate number and reconstruct the composition and main groups of residents of the future city. Also, they demonstrate that along with national censuses, the mining administration exercised police control over the structure and population numbers to solve various tasks. Among them are the organization of production processes, the defence of factories during the Bashkir uprising of 1735–1740, control over the population on the territory of the city, etc. One of the results of the study is the clarification of the male population of Yekaterinburg. Comparison of data from different years helps draw conclusions about the positive dynamics of the number of inhabitants in the first decades of the city’s existence. The increase in the figures and change in the composition of the population affected the appearance of the settlement. It acquired urban features. Thus, in the second quarter of the eighteenth century, there were all the prerequisites for Yekaterinburg to acquire the status of a city.
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