title: GREEKS OF THE NORTHERN AZOV SEA REGION IN THE MATERIALS OF DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS OF THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES: INFORMATIVE OPPORTUNITIES, PROBLEMS OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
abstract: The article examines the materials of demographic statistics, presented by the IV-X revisions, salary books, materials from the census of the population of the Russian Empire of 1897, metrical books, as well as registers compiled by Russian officials and representatives of Greek society. Until now, the heuristics of the source-base for the history of the Mariupol Greeks is complicated by the fact that the archival materials of the State Archives in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the State
journal: Zaporizhzhia Historical Review