ABSTRACT
Table 3.1 shows the population of Russia from 1897 to the present. For the Czarist period information is provided only for the years 1897 and 1913. World War I accounts for a four-year gap. There are also minor omissions in the total population count for 1917-29. An eightyear blank in information then follows. Statistical data was resumed for 1937-40, after which there was a t~n-year gap: the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and the initial postwar years. Annual total population figures are given since 1950.
