Home – Home – Jornals – Humanitarian sciences in Siberia 2019 number

The article subject is problems of mortality due external causes in Russia. The author presents results of reconstruction of its dynamics and structural characteristics in the Soviet era’s last decades. The paper objective is to examine the mortality due external causes in the villages of East Siberia as an indicator of the rural society life quality. It shows the mortality dynamics level and structure over thirty years at the end of the Soviet period; reveals features of this process in Siberia. The author explains specifics of mortality among Siberians taking into account the complex impact of natural and climatic, economic, socio-cultural factors; compares mortality processes in Siberian villages with similar ones in regional cities and villages of Russia as a whole. Based on official statistics, the article shows that the mortality from injuries in East Siberian villages developed following the all-Russian pattern. It grew throughout the whole country, but in the region’s countryside its level, dynamics and structure were of extraordinary nature. The death rate grew in the villages of the region faster than in the cities and in Russian villages in general and more than doubled in three decades. External influences ranked second in the structure of the overall mortality causes of Siberians throughout the period. The regional villages forged ahead in Russia in all types of traumatic mortality. The article provides statistics on the main classes of the most common death causes. It proves that the mortality crisis in East Siberia was more acute than anywhere in the country, and that the high mortality of Siberians was determined by both behavioral, environmental and economic factors.