WARGi MЬDe – «GREAT WAR» AND DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION OF MIDDLE-SELKUPS
The paper focuses on the participation of the Selkups in the Great Patriotic War. The main emphasis is on establishing of the Selkup pre-war population in the area of Narym and the number of their casualties in the war. Following analysis the author concludes that the large casualties of the Selkups at the front have led to high-quality demographic changes and became one of the reasons that caused irreversible cultural change in the postwar period.
Keywords: the Great Patriotic War, demography, military casualties, cultural change
Issue: 9, 2012
Pages: 100 — 106
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