Demographic processes in the Komi ASSR in 1941-1945: historiographical review

The paper analyzes the reflection, in historiography, of the problems of demographic development of the population of the Komi ASSR during the Great Patriotic War. Two periods are distinguished in this process: Soviet and post-Soviet. They are characterized by various methodological approaches, information and source base, formulation and solution of issues of demographic history. Regional studies of the population of rear regions occupy a significant place in modern historiography. Scientists have analyzed such demographic problems of the republic during the war years as population size, natural movement, gender and age structure, marital status of the population, mobilization of human resources to the front, changes in the structure of labor resources, migration.