WANG Xiaoju

(№.3,2013)

Abstract: The immigrants were a major source of population growth of the frontier regions of Russia. In the time of the Soviet Union, the remote and wild Far East incessantly received all sorts of immigrants through varied channels against the background of the Far East development, thereby realizing a constant increase of population. In 1991, the Far East’s population and its proportion in the total population of Russia both reached a peak in history. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the population in the Far East flowed out seriously day by day and the population declined continuously, forming a sharp contrast to the population in the period of the Soviet Union.

Key words: Soviet Union; Russia; Far East; immigrants; population growth