Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2016 9) 1651-1660 ~ ~ ~ УДК 519.25: 930 Spatial Approach to the Analysis of the Employment Data in Siberia Based on the 1897 Census (the Experience of Multivariate Statistical Analysis of the District’s Data) Elena A. Bryukhanova, Sergey V. Dronov and Oksana I. Chekryzhova* Altai State University 61a Lenina pr., Barnaul, 656049, Russia Received 12.03.2016, received in revised form 24.05.2016, accepted 18.06.2016 The article presents an original approach to regionalization of Siberia at the turn of 19th -20th centuries. <...> The subdivision into districts is based on the typology of districts (uezds) in Siberia, which allows to make a more detailed spatial analysis of the data on employment of the 1897 census. <...> The key source of the research has become an open information resource developed on the basis of the published materials of the 1897 census by the number of occupational groups, their gender, age and ethnic composition. <...> Application of mathematical methods such as cluster analysis, post-hoc method and coefficient of cluster differences, allowed not only to identify the socio-demographic and economic types of Siberian districts, but also to rank the importance of the factors for determining the “appearance” of the districts. <...> Further implementation of the cartographic method to analyze the sets of clusters defined spatial boundaries of socio-economic districts in Siberia. <...> This study contributes to comprehensive understanding of the peculiarities of development of Siberian territories and enhancement of modernization processes at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. <...> The research is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 15-06-07553А “Typology of employment in the regions of Russian Empire at the end of 19th – beginning of 20th century (on the basis of multivariate statistical analysis of the first overall census in 1897). <...> Spatial analysis and subdivision into districts in Siberia Spatial analysis in historical research has got its new development in the beginning of the 21st © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: elena@hist.asu.ru – 1651 – century, in connection with the use of information technology in data processing and analysis (Vladimirov, 1998). <...> Currently, geographic information systems based on historical material Melissa Terras. <...> A Decade in Digital Humanities are actively used. <...> They are implemented for storage, processing and interpretation of data in the field of archeology, land use, migration, history <...>