The agricultural population of the Middle Pritomye in the 18th century

The article is devoted to the problem of studying socio-demographic processes in narrow territorial regions (Middle Tom River Region within the borders of the modern Kemerovo region). The methodical solution of the problem was the definition of comparable boundaries of administrative-territorial division (county - zemsky office). This is the territory of agricultural regions formed in the XVII century: Sosnovsky and Verkhotomsky burgees of Tomsk district, Mungat burg and Kuznetsk suburb of Kuznetsk district. The empirical base of the research were the materials of historians and archival sources (Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, State Archive of the Altai Territory, State Archive of the Tomsk Region). Factors have been identified that contributed to the evolution of social groups of the agricultural population in the region (tax reform and formation of the category of state peasants; Organization of the Kolyvan-Voskresensk mountainous district and the folding of the category of ascribed peasants). According to the primary and summary materials of the census registration, the dynamics of the number of each of the social groups of the agricultural population of the Middle Tom River Region was traced (state, monastic (economic), ascribed peasants, "raznochintsy", rural townspeople). The peculiarity of the process of population reproduction in the region was the dominance of natural growth over the mechanical (due to the displacement of the colonization flow to the south and the government's ban on settling in the territory of the mining district). The average annual rate of population growth was 1,4%. The family composition of the agricultural population of the Middle Tom River Region was determined (956 surnames, of which 644 belonged to representatives of the category of registered peasants), was tendency of folding single-family settlements in the region. The number of agricultural population according to the results of the 5th revision census (1795) was 15 966 men: ascribed peasants were 14930 men or 93,5%, rural townspeople - 1036 men or 6,5%.

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