The paper argues that main stages of migration transition in the Urals, being in close connection with the industrialization process, were in a full accordance with the universal conceptual schemes of drastic changes in urbanization and migration during the XXth century. The accelerated growth of the regional economy in the 1930s led to the massive displacements of the population (voluntary as well as compulsory), and these in-migrations accounted lor the four fifth of tne aggregate urban population growth in the region. The sizable influx of the evacuees and refugees during the early months of tne Great Patriotic War had given place to the essential and mainly not filled up casualities and losses for the rest of war-time. During the postwar period, the intensive migrations were bound up with the increasing outflow of population from the rural areas and small- anil medium-sued towns. So the migration increase in the cities and large towns was due to the intraregional redistribution of population, while the non-equivalent interregional population exchange resulted in great losses of the most trained and skilled manpower. Rut migration process of the late 1980s—early 1990s saw turbulent changes, such as the cessation of rural out-migration, the increase of return migration from urban localities to rural areas, the growth of ethnic migartion from the former USSR s republics and the national autonomies of Russia, the increasing emigration of dispersed peoples which have no national states on the Russian territory.