A retrospective analysis of the reproduction of small indigenous peoples in the Arctic oil and gas producing Region

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The article describes the experience of using the possibilities of historical and demographic analysis in the study of the productive forces of the Ural North at the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The specific object of the study was the indigenous population of the Tazovsky and Yamal municipal districts of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The subject of the study is various aspects of demographic processes among one of the indigenous ethnic groups of the region during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty–first century. The general dynamics of reproduction of the indigenous ethnic group is characterized, changes in the sex and age structure of the population and the impact of migration on demographic indicators in these municipal areas are revealed. The information obtained as a result of a retrospective analysis makes it possible to more reasonably determine the content of socio-economic policy in the studied territory.