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The article presents a study which examines the population trends and patterns in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) as illustrated by data from the October 2005 census. It evaluates the national and regional total populations, including nationality composition, migration and the trends in urbanization, from the war-torn republic. The results of the Soviet census in the region, particularly the difference of population in the NKR from the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan, are discussed.

The article presents the result of a study on the first post-Soviet census of Armenia. The study examines the national and regional trends in Armenia's urban and rural population as well as the country's urbanization on the basis of the 2001 census data. The country experienced a sharp decline in population in the period 1989-2001, despite the continued natural increase because of net emigration.

The article presents geographical patterns of the Jewish population in the Pale of Settlement of late 19th Century Russia. One of the most significant minority groups of the Russian Empire were the Jews, who numbered approximately five million people around the turn of the century, and accounted for nearly 46% of the Jewish population of the world. One of the major factors which gave rise to the appreciable Jewish immigration in the empire was the anti-Jewish policies imposed by the tsarist government during the century. This ant-Jewish policies accounts for the major geographic manifestation in the establishment of the Jewish Pale of Settle.

The article discusses about the population redistribution in the Soviet Union and its impact on the society. It aims at measuring dispersal of Russians into non-Russian areas of the Soviet Union since 1897, and endeavor to explain this population redistribution in terms of general formulations from the migration literature. Because the bulk of the Russian migration was to the urban areas of the non-Russian areas, major emphasis is placed upon the changing shares they have comprised of the urban population in these areas outside of the RSFSR. The article also considers the prospects of future migration of non-Russians into Russian areas. The Russians have been relatively highly mobile, which is to be expected of such a modernized and dominant group. In particular, they have experienced a great amount of regional dispersal from their traditional areas in the western Soviet Union to regions farther east. The article suggests that determining conditions in the explanation of ethnic identity and tension, particularly the competition for jobs and economic improvement, which are associated with the differential integration of the various groups into the modernized sectors of society.

In this study we attempt to describe and to analyze broadly urbanization in Russia and the USSR during the present century. To measure urbanization data were gathered from Russian, Soviet, and East European censuses according to a comparable definition and comparable territorial units. Despite very great population losses owing to war and famine in this century, urbanization increased at a remarkable rate, even greater than that of the United States. Between 1897 and 1959, the urbanization process was especially dynamic in four regions--Ural, Central, West Siberia, and Donetsk-Dnepr--and, in general, the east experienced a greater increase than the west. Since 1959, however, this latter trend has been reversed. Our analysis demonstrates that this urbanization was, in general, related to three complexly interrelated factors-industrialization, transportation accessibility, and in-migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]