Roman Tesliuk participated in the scientific conference

The 16th annual scientific conference, “Kyiv and Kyivans,” was held in the Kyiv History Museum on November 11 and 12. Roman Tesliuk, a junior researcher at the Holodomor Museum, PhD in Geography, participated.

The conference summarized the study of Kyiv’s development in recent years and established theoretical and methodological frameworks for future city studies. Over 60 researchers from museums, archives, and educational institutions in the capital and other cities participated in the event.

Roman Tesliuk delivered a speech titled “Changing the Population of Kyiv in the 1920s and 1930s.” In his presentation, he discussed the key trends in both natural and mechanical population movements in Kyiv during this time. He emphasized the importance of conducting critical analysis and verifying diverse sources of population statistics that are used in demographic studies from this period. The speaker drew attention to the fact that migration was the main component of the population change in Kyiv in the 1920s and 1930s. During the Holodomor, thousands of starving farmers flooded the city, trying to save themselves from starvation. In 1933, over 5,000 death records were registered in the departments of the city’s Civil Registry Office, which did not concern Kyiv residents but people whose place of residence was not established. The researcher also explained the advantages of using primary archival data for a better understanding of demographic processes at the local level.

Based on the results of the conference participants’ presentations, a collection of materials has been published. You can view it here.