The Bulgarian community of the Perm region: formation, settlements, number

The article is devoted to the consideration of formation, migrations analysis and the nature of the settlement of the Bulgarian community in the Perm Region in the 20thcentury. The ethnically dispersed group of Bulgarians in the Ural-Volga region was formed as a result of a number of state- regulated resettlement campaigns. The analysis of the archival materials of the Perm State Archive of Social and Political History shows that most of the Bulgarians moved to the region as a result of forced evictions (dispossession, deportation) from territories of the Ukrainian SSR, Moldavian SSR and the Crimean ASSR, and only a few people turned out to be political emigrants from Bulgaria. In addition to archival documents, the article also TOntains interview materials of memories of Bulgarians concerning life in the Perm Region.