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In this article, the author has attempted to investigate briefly the major nationality population trends and patterns in Belarus during the intercensal period of 1989-1999. At the nationwide level, results revealed that of the major nationalities, only the ethnic Belarusians experienced a total population increase, although it was only a slight one. In contrast, the ethnic Russian and Ukrainian populations declined especially sharply. As a result, the Belarusian share of the total population increased to over 80 percent in 1999 and the second-ranking Russian share dropped to barely more than 10 percent. The Belarusian share of the urban population increased appreciably, although their corresponding share of the rural population declined slightly. This study provides some initial observations on the general nationality population trends and patterns that have emerged from first census of post-Soviet Belarus.

Investigates the most rapidly growing towns and cities of the Former Soviet republics during the periods of 1970 to 1979 and 1979 to 1989. Definition of rapidly growing towns in the study; Focus on the regional distribution, economic functions and size characteristics of the rapidly growing centers.

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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.