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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
- Subject: Re: Narva in the inter-war period
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.120612.2713@enea.se>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 12:06:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.114602.7888@enea.se> <1992Nov9.205728.17278@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- Mikhail S. Verbitsky (verbit@brauer.harvard.edu) writes:
- >Dear Erland, you are not exactly right. The problem with Narva
- >is that this city is almost on the border, and on the other
- >side of the border there is another city, Ivangorod.
-
- And to which country did Ivangorod belong in the inter-war
- period?
-
- >Naturally, in Soviet times these cities grow up like one (like, say,
- >Estonian Valga and Latvian Valka), so their population
- >became more mixed than before. If you consider those
- >two cities together, then you'll see that the demography
- >sitiation did not change much.
-
- If there were only 7-8000 Russians in Narva in 1925 of a total
- of 26.000, and the demography is the same in Narva + Ivangorod,
- and today there are 97% Russians in Narva we can draw the conclusion
- that there were 400.000 Russians living in Ivangorod at the time.
- Doesn't seem bloodly likely, does it?
- --
- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
-