Research of necropolis burials as a source of ethnodemograpic information (case study of the Central city cemetery of Syktyvkar)

The paper presents the experience of ethnodemographic research of the modern necropolis using the example of the Central City Cemetery of Syktyvkar. An estimate of the total number and ethno-confessional composition of the buried is given. The number, age and gender structure of centenarians are revealed.