Migration in Yakutia through the Prism of Territory Development in the Pre-Revolutionary Period

Abstract

The history of settlement in the Russian outskirts allows us to better understand the context of their development and to prepare recommendations for improving the socio-economic situation. The authors introduced the term “actors of migration” into scientific usage, which serves as a tool for systematizing the available knowledge about migration and establishing cause-and-effect relations when analyzing migration processes, in particular when estimating the costs of relocation or resettlement. Using the example of the development of Yakutia in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the contribution of individual actors of migration is considered. It is shown that in the case of the movement of the local population within Yakutia, the actors of migration are clan, tribe and family. External migration was organized, financed and accompanied mainly by the state, but companies were often involved in attracting the population (workers).