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The article discusses the information of such a type of demographic and statistical sources as registers of the Orthodox clergy.To determine the degree of its reliability and completeness, a comparative analysis was carried out with administrative accounting materials, such as "Lists of populated places".The authors transforms D.E.Sarafanov's approach by increasing the research area and focusing on a shorter time interval.The comparison was carried out on the example of the Kainsky district of the Tomsk province in 1891-1893, since the settlement structure of this region was stable during this period, and migration processes were just beginning to affect the structure of the population.For this purpose, author databases were developed on the basis of the above-mentioned sources and cartographic modeling of the received information was carried out.Information about the parish was used from the clerical lists: its composition, the parish church, the category of the parish population by class and confessional.From the "Lists of populated places of 1893", data on the location of settlements and the population were taken.Further, using the method of superimposing historical maps on a modern topographical basis, mapping of all inhabited localities of the Kainsky district for 1893 was carried out (according to the "Lists…"), the location and boundaries of parishes were revealed.Such an approach made it possible to perform a comparative mathematical and spatial analysis of the results of various accounting systems, as well as to prove that the Orthodox clergy also took into account the non-Orthodox population, but not in full, in particular, the nomadic and foreign population was not registered.
Znosko et al. (Sun,) studied this question.