Resettable settlements of Kolyonskaya volost: occurrence and economic development (the beginning of 20th century)
Resettable settlements in Mariinsk district became a dominant kind of settlements in 1911. There were 7 of them in Kolyonskaya volost. There are a lot of lists of the peasant-settlers who were subject to settlement in the State Archives of Tomsk region. Few of them had necessary means for acquisition on a new place. Resettlement modified peasant strategy of the survival. There was a fatal dependence of results of work from climatic conditions. The provision with land was larger than in European Russia. Three or four years later new settlers were compared with a great bulk of resettlable farms. But the level of their economic solvency was smaller than old residents had. There was a considerable number of cropless and horseless farms.