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The article examines mortality evolution in West Siberia, the largest region of the Russian Federation. The region is considered within the boundaries of the same economic region at the time of the 1959 census. Statistical information for 1950-1970 was inaccessible to researchers for a long time by censorship restrictions and does not represent an integral array. In this regard, the author made a request directly to the statistical agencies of the regions of Western Siberia. Information was provided by all regions, except for the Altai Republic. The research sources are the official data of the State Statistics Territorial Authorities in the regions of West Siberia, as well as archival sources. The materials provided by statistical agencies are compiled according to the same set of indicators: population abundance (urban and rural), the absolute number of births and deaths, including children under the age of one year (urban and rural), population movement, including infant mortality, population mortality (urban and rural). The data are represented by continuous dynamic series for 1950-1970. The author summarized the data and calculated the indicators of natural population movement in the region as a whole according to the methodology of the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. In this form, information was not published and introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The article objective is the population mortality reconstruction. The study resulted in recovering mortality time series and tracing evolutionary changes during the historical period under consideration. Population mortality in West Siberia constantly decreased until 1967. After that, its increase was noted. In general, the population dynamics in the region went the same way as in the whole country, but with 10-15 year lag.