Sources

All of the data used here come from State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics (Goskomstat) http://www.gks.ru:

Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике (Госкомстат России)
http://www.gks.ru

They were gathered from publications or from the following sources:

Data 1979

Госкомстат России (2001), Российский Статистический Ежегодник, Moсква: Госкомстат России, 679 с.
[Goskomsat (2001), Statistical Yearbook of Russia, Moscou : Goskomstat, 679 p.]

Data 1989

- Population by region:

Госкомстат России (2001), Российский Статистический Ежегодник, Moсква: Госкомстат России, 679 с.
[Goskomsat (2001), Statistical Yearbook of Russia, Moscou : Goskomstat, 679 p.]

- Population by district and city:

site The Ethnic Territories of Russia GIS Project, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/creeca/kaiser/index.htm

Table used: «Population Statistics 1989-1997»

Data 2002

Goskomstat site, census section (in Russian)
http://www.gks.ru/PEREPIS/osn_itog.htm