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The article objective is to publish and analyze the materials of the 1939 All-Union population census for Khakass Autonomous Region, a national region of Siberia. The study object is the population of Khakassia as a result of scientific historical and demographic research. The subject is the features of demographic development recorded by the 1939 census. The introduction gives a brief overview of historiography of the topic. The study sources are the materials of the 1939 census stored in the Russian State Archive of Economics (RSAE). The article introduces a fairly large array of data into scientific circulation, which either add the previously published census data, or are published for the first time. These data show the composition of Khakassia population by age and gender in the context of urban and rural population, family-marital structure, ethnic composition, population distribution according to sources of livelihoods, industry employment. The paper gives the analysis of these changes recorded by the census compared with the data for 1926, as well as for the USSR and the RSFSR. It shows that there was a high proportion of large families with five or more children in Khakassia which characterized the extended or progressive type of the population reproduction in the autonomous region. The article concludes that the given indicators of demographic statistics of Khakassia population based on the results of the 1939 census allow expanding the knowledge about demographic processes in Khakassia in the 1930s, and the population in Khakassia on the eve of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War.