Composition of rural population of Yakutia during the Great Patriotic War (based on reports of rural councils)

In this article, the objective of the author is to introduce into scientific use a brand new historical source, one-time reports of rural councils on the age and sex composition of the rural population. This will allow to investigate in detail the dynamics of demographic changes in rural areas of Yakutia in 1941-1945, the structure of the population by sex and age, and further clarify the number of population in rural areas. In general, demographic processes in wartime were similar both in the country and in the republic. Gender asymmetry in the population structure was represented in the following data: while the proportion of women in the Russian village on January 1, 1945 ranged from 79.8 % in the age group 18-24 years and up to 80.5 % in the age group 25-49 years, in the Yakut ASSR - 64.4 % and 62.2 % respectively. Therefore, the author concluded that in the Yakut republic as a whole, the sex and age ratio for the most vulnerable categories of the population mobilized during the Great Patriotic War was less severe than for the RSFSR.