Settler Movement in Asia Russia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

This work is dedicated to the Imperial policy of Russia in XIX-XX centuries in the context of internal migration. The position of Siberia within the Russian Empire is a long process of its inclusion in the overall economic, socio-cultural and economic space. Actuality of work consists in the consideration of the resettlement movement as a special case of the functioning of Imperial policy in the integration of the centre with the periphery. The aim of this work is to identify the effectiveness of the scenarios of the resettlement policy of the state, its goals in space exploration and the reaction of peasants to the proposed reforms. For the successful implementation of this project conducted an in-depth study of sources: official documents, personal correspondence, questionnaires peasants, maps and routes for walkers, fiction. Objectives of the study are to consider the trajectory of the development of resettlement movement in the Asian part of Russia, the analysis of the sources on the subject, clarifying the purposes of creating a resettlement reform and the reaction of the peasants to them. The subject of research is the migration movement in Russia in the late XIX – early XX centuries. the Object of study is a reflection of the resettlement policy in the sources. Involved in this work approach, implying that migration movement was used by the state as a political tool for the formation of a single socio-cultural space.