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The paper characterizes the role of young people aged 15 – 25 in the development of various components (demography, military mobilization, migration, labor, sociocultural aspects) of human potential of Siberia on the eve of World War II. In particular, the author shows the youth’s effect on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the age and sex structure of the population (structure of male population subject to military conscription during the war; local population involved into migration processes; working-age and literate population). The author concludes that during the period under consideration the youth played one of the leading roles in human capital formation in Siberia. This demographic factor served as an important prerequisite for an intensive use of youth as a major military manpower and labor resource during the World War II.