Census results show population drain in Russia’s North

The population of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and other northern regions might be 10 percent less that anticipated.

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer June 6, 2022
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Judging from preliminary results of the Russian census of 2020, there are only 668,000 people living in the Murmansk region. That is almost 10 percent less than the figure used by Rosstat, the Russian statistics service.

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