CHANGES IN THE NATIONAL COMPOSITION OF THE POPULATION OF ESTONIA AND LATVIA DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD
The article highlights the dynamics of national composition of population at the level of the lower administrative units of Estonia and Latvia during the Soviet period. The study is based on the results of the All-Union census in 1959, 1970, 1979 and 1989. The authors also analyze the last census in the first period of Estonian independence (1934) and Latvia (1935). The authors consider the geography of settlement, population dynamics, and the share of the titular nations and the most numerous ethnic groups of the two Baltic republics.