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There is a statement in the modern scientific literature that one of the main socio-economic processes of the twentieth century is urbanization. In our opinion, it’s not far from the truth. The development of a network of urban settlements became possible only because of the rapid growth of the industrial economy, development of transport routes, trade and culture. Urbanization, as is known, is interpreted in two aspects. In the broadest sense of the word urbanization means the formation of the urban way of life, the transformation of the social psychology of the resident of the city, the emergence of a new cultural environment. In the narrow sense of the word urbanization is the growth of the urban population, an increase in the proportion of urban residents in the population, the expansion of the network of urban settlements.This article considers the poorly studied problem of urban population dynamics in the RSFSR during the World War II. While the size of urban population in certain regions of the country in 1939-1945 is determined, the urban population dynamics on the national level remains beyond the attention of scientists, though there is a large number of works devoted to the problems of historical demography and historical urbanistics. Meanwhile, the question of population change, including urban, is extremely important. It is not only a significant indicator of social and economic and demographic development, but an important criterion of both direct and human losses. Besides, data on the population in the war years are used for determining the military and labor mobilization resources, for calculations of the parameters of natural and mechanical movement of the population. So, the problem formulated in the article is one of the fundamental problems of historical demography. The article reveals specific indicators of population size in cities and in rear areas as well as in the occupied territories. A lot of attention is paid to source-study aspects of the problem