The Population Evacuated from the Western Counties of the Grodno Governorate in Siberia in 1916: The Example of the Tomsk Governorate Cover Image

Ludność ewakuowana z zachodnich powiatów guberni grodzieńskiej na Syberii w 1916 roku na przykładzie guberni tomskiej
The Population Evacuated from the Western Counties of the Grodno Governorate in Siberia in 1916: The Example of the Tomsk Governorate

Author(s): Stefan Dmitruk
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Historical Geography, Economic history, Political history, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Grodno Governorate; evacuations of civilians; World War I; Russia; Tomsk; demography

Summary/Abstract: In the aftermath of the First World War there were a lot of migrations. One of them was the evacuation of civilian population into the depths of Russia. The aim of the publication is a demographic and statistical analysis of households of the western counties of the Grodno Governorate evacuated to the Tomsk Governorate in the summer of 1915. The source basis is the list of the evacuated people printed in Tomsk in 1916. The text presents the changes in the demographic structure of the analysed households and the demographic and ethnic consequences of the First World War for the community of the Grodno Governorate.

  • Issue Year: 39/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 283-322
  • Page Count: 40
  • Language: Polish