For example, the modest changes in the population totals of the Baltic States are readily apparent, as are the decreases in the populations ofBelorussia and the western Ukraine, the stability of the population of the Caucasus (aside from the loo, ooo immi- grants into Armenia), and-with the exception of Moscow-the relative stagnation of population growth in the Central Industrial Region, the North- west, and the Volga. To the east, as the map shows, were the enormous in- creases of the Urals, Kazakhstan, and, especially, the Far East (including in particular the new settlers of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands).