Dynamics of the ethno-demographic situation in the mejuda gorge of South Ossetia (1886–2015)

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2020-50-2/255-271

Abstract

The work examines the dynamics of the demographic situation and the ethnic composition of the population in the Mejuda gorge of South Ossetia in the period from 1886 to 2015. Throughout this period Mejuda gorge had a peripheral economic-geographical position. In Soviet times, the gorge did not have direct transport links with other parts of South Ossetia and was economically focused mainly on the Gori district of Georgia. This fact greatly complicated the humanitarian situation in the microregion in the political-geographical realities that had changed after the collapse of the USSR. The above reasons have determined the steady depopulation of the Mejuda gorge since the 1940s. The decline in the number of inhabitants has increased particularly since the early 1990s.

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