Historical and cultural problems

of northern countries and regions

 

Scientific articles

 

 

Regional statistical collections of the European North of the USSR

in the 1950s-1970s as a source on the history of automobilization

 

 

Matsuk A.M.¹

 

 

Abstract. In the 20th century, both in the USSR as a whole and in the regions of the European North of the USSR, all types of transport are developing rapidly. The development of transport was directly related to Soviet modernization. In turn, transport has had a significant impact on the modernization itself. Some aspects of the development of automobile transport were noted in statistical compilations published in the regions and autonomous republics. In a number of articles we have shown the informational significance of these sources for studying the history of transport (including the automobile transport) of the European North of Russia. However, in those articles, only information from the sections "Transport and Communication" was analyzed. Nevertheless, in other sections of the statistical compilations also has information on certain aspects of automobilization. In this article, we will analyze the entire volume of information about the state of automobile transport and other issues of automobilization of the European North of the country, available in regional statistical compilations for the period 1950s-1970s. In the future it is planned to continue this analysis for the period of the 1980s-1990s.

Keywords: European North of the USSR, automobilization, Soviet modernization, statistical compilations, the Arkhangelsk region, the Vologda region, the Murmansk region, the Karelian ASSR, the Komi ASSR.

 

 

¹Matsuk Aleksandr Mikhailovich. Candidate of Science (History), Senior Researcher of Laboratory of archaeography and publication of documents on the history of the development of the European North of Russia of Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Historical and cultural problems of northern countries and regions”. Kommunisticheskaia str., 26, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation.

E-mail: almmatsuk@gmail.com

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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