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The adverse migration situation in the Arkhangelsk Region is already perceived as a serious problem. However, both scientific and journalistic literature pays more attention to the interregional migration than to the intraregional one. This article reveals the logic of the chain of population replacement from the smallest towns to the administrative centre of the region using the examples of the Vilegodsky and Plesetsky districts. The author dwells on periodization of forming the population in the European North of Russia as well as on the changes in the administrative boundaries of the region. The focus of this article is on the long-term factors of intraregional migration within the Arkhangelsk Region over the 20th century. In terms of duration, all the factors can be divided into permanent (or unchangeable), temporary (or slowly changing), and variable. In addition, each territory is affected by various groups of push and pull factors of migration. They determine whether groups of people or individuals come to or leave the areas. The first long-term (slowly changing) factor affecting the intraregional migration in the Arkhangelsk Region is transport infrastructure; the second one is natural conditions. These are rather ambiguous and could be both push and pull factors. The third factor is the socioeconomic potential of the region. Both agriculture and traditional industries of the North had throughout the 20th century determined migration flows and trends. Within the framework of these factors, the author looks at a number of problems in the region that had been observed during the 20th century.

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