SOCIAL-DEMOGRAPHIC PHENOMENON OF THE FIRST 100 YEARS OF KOTOVSK POPULATION BEING OF TAMBOV REGION

It is based on traditional (archival vital statistics, official record, diaries, memoirs) and also on new and original (E-Books of Condolence, genealogies, questionnaires) mass sources of social-demographic information processed in E-database. Some key sides of such a unique social-demographic phenomenon as a Tambov powder factory-town Kotovsk case are analyzed. The synergic set of factors, the sharpest agrarian overpopulation of Tambov region in the early XIX century with the imminent higher social aggression (activities) within the regional population, at maximum highly multi population and multiethnic structure of the first Kotovsk generations, a comparatively high living standard in a brand-new industrial settlement alongside with a traditional family model inertia had been brought to and supported in the interwar Kotovsk in the USSR’s highest fertility rate, birthrate and natural population increase. For the same was taken Kotovsk first decades’ population and displayed one of the highest levels of social impulse and aggression that could be detected by special markers. As Kotovsk population has been accumulating gradually some crucial qualitative and quantitative losses and deformations (heavy human losses in wars and political repression, a transition to a dominant immigration from local rural areas taken together with an emigration of the best segments of home population, a worsening of the ecological pattern at hand with socio-cultural infrastructure stagnation, a transition to a modern family model has overturned the live synergy of the town and has driven Kotovsk demographic indices to the lowest ones in nowadays urban Russia.

city, village, population, social aggression, synergy of factors, social and cultural activities’ markers, mass sources, E-database