The all-Russian population census, scheduled for 2020, has been officially postponed to 2021. The article, in connection with the upcoming census, examines the situation with labor migration of the population from the Altai Republic. The subject of research is labor migration from the Altai Republic. It should be especially noted that the spatial mobility of the region's population is becoming characteristic, first of all, of the rural population. The Altai Republic is the only region in Siberia with a predominantly rural population. The purpose of the article is to pose a problem in connection with the upcoming population census, the results of which, among other things, will form the budget of the social sphere. Education and health problems, amid the well-known restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic COVID-19, affect every Russian family. These acute problems today may worsen in the next inter-censal period (2021–2030) due to the expected low population of municipalities in the Altai Republic.
