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This paper describes post-Soviet social and geographical features and trends in the development of migration processes in the historical and cultural macroregion of Siberia as a whole and with differentiation of 16 constituent regions. The study is carried out using information from the Rosstat database relating to the post-Soviet period, especially data from the 2013-2018 time interval during which no changes were introduced into the rules of statistical accounting of migration. The main post-Sovi et trends in the population migration of Siberia are as follows. First, a decrease in the volume of migration “at the place of residence” with an increase in the volume of migration “at the place of temporary residence”. Second, a centripetal intrare gional vector, a negative “western” interregional vector, and a positive vector of interstate migration. Third, depopulation in the migration of peripheral territories. Fourth, the slowdown of extensive urbanization due to exhausted rural demographic resourc es and rising prices for urban housing. Fifth, the improvement of suburbanization in the areas affected by the largest cities. Fi nally, the accumulation of population into the urban agglomerations of the trans-Siberian Economic Corridor. The migration trends manifested in individual regions are as follows. The maximal migration mobility is observed in the Khanty-Mansi Auto nomous Okrug (KHMAO), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO), and the Altai Republic. A migration growth is observed in five regions (the Tyumen oblast, the Novosibirsk oblast, the Tomsk oblast, the Republic of Khakassia, and the Krasnoyarsk Krai), and a migration loss is manifested in the remaining 11 oblasts. The Tyumen, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk regions are the only regions with population growth from Russian territories. A migration gain from outside the Russian Federation is observed in all the above-mentioned regions.