STATISTICAL SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KUZBASS IN THE LATE 1850s –EARLY 1890s

Abstract

The paper characterizes the the main statistical sources on history of social and economic development of Kuzbass in the late 1850s – early 1890s, including both published and unpublished sources. The reasons and circumstances of emergence of those documents in connection with the change of the status of State statistics from the second half of the 1850s is traced are specified in the paper. Their analysis allowed to come to certain conclusions. The listed sources represent statistical documents whose information enables reconstructing the dynamics of the main indicators of population of Kuznetsk and Mariinsk districts ofTomskprovince in the second half of the 19th century. The specified works also reveal the issues of social and economic development of the region. The territory of the Kuznetsk area of the Kuznetsk district is chosen as the example fro characterising the settlements of a certain Russian subregion. The reconstructed characteristics are: settlements network, dynamics of the number of country households and population of the subregion, development of its social infrastructure. The paper staticizes the detailed studying of Kuzbass settlements, especially as many of them still exist today. The paper includes fragments of maps, tables and a diagram illustrating its basic provisions; they are based on the sources listed in references and represent a fragment of the database on settlements of Kuznetsk and Mariinsk districts ofTomskprovince.