NATURAL AND MECHANICAL MOVEMENT OF THE POPULATION OF THE TASSR IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1980s (ACCORDING TO MATERIALS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN)
In modern Russian historiography, regional studies are becoming increasingly popular, allowing to supplement and disclose the most important processes of the social and economic development of Russia as a whole. Not all aspects of the demographic history of the country, its regions and the Tatar ASSR in particular have been studied yet. There are no comprehensive works devoted to the dynamics of the demographic characteristics of the population in the 1980s. This study allows filling this gap and introduce into scientific circulation new archival data deposited in the National Archivе of the Republic of Tatarstan. On their basis, using general scientific and special methods (historical, applied statistics), quantitative characteristics of the natural and mechanical movement of the population of the TASSR in the first half of the 1980s are given, and its dynamics is analyzed. The tendency of reducing the number of rural population in the period under review was revealed, mainly due to the resettlement of rural residents to urban settlements. The centers of attraction in the republic were Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny (Brezhnev), Nizhnekamsk.