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Overview
This map visualizes a combination of data on numbers of excess deaths from famine in Ukraine in the period of 1932-1934 and levels of collectivization in 1932.
The bar charts show the numbers of excess deaths per 1000 of the local population in each oblast and in the Moldavian Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (Moldavia), with figures for 1932, 1933, and 1934 given from left to right in each set of charts.
Color shading indicates levels of collectivization in 1932 for each oblast and Moldavia. The darkest shade indicates excess deaths per 1000 of the local population between 84.4 - 85.1. The slightly lighter shading indicates losses between 67.3 - 72 per 1000. The lightest shade indicates losses between 47.3 - 58.9 per 1000 of the local population.
The boundary lines indicate the oblast boundaries of the October 25, 1932 administrative division of Ukraine into seven oblasts and Moldavia.
Sources
This map visualizes data based on estimates of deaths during the Holodomor period derived under the "Estimation of Regional Losses of the 1932-1934 Famine in Ukraine" project conducted by Dr. Oleh Wolowyna (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Omelian Rudnytskyi, Nataliia Levchuk, Pavlo Shevchuk, and Alla Savchuk (Institute of Demography and Social Studies in Kyiv).
The estimation here of Holodomor losses is based on separate yearly urban and rural population reconstructions by age and sex, using data from three Soviet censuses (1926, 1937, and 1939), as well as annual vital statistics and migration data for the 1927-1939 period. 1926 and 1937 census data were adjusted for undercounts and other problems, while 1939 census data were adjusted to eliminate falsifications implemented to cover up large population losses understood to be due to the famine and other repressive policies. Yearly registered births and deaths were adjusted for undercounts, especially during famine years when the undercount reached extreme levels. Based on these data and detailed data on migration, taking into account urban-rural reclassification, yearly population figures were reconstructed according to age and sex for Soviet Ukraine's eight regions, as well as for urban-rural areas.
Famine losses are operationally defined as the difference between actual estimated deaths (or births) during 1932-1934, and the number of hypothetical deaths (or births) had there been no famine. The difference in deaths is called direct losses or excess deaths; the difference in births is called indirect losses or lost births.
The data on levels of collectivization in 1932 is taken from:
