Regional Capitals and Their Suburbs in Russia: Net Migration Patterns
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618060110
Abstract
Capital cities of the Russian regions and their suburbs demonstrate stability in terms of population increase. In this paper we define suburban areas for 72 regional centers of Russia (excluding Moscow oblast, Leningrad oblast and a set of other federal subjects) based on the proximity to the regional center. In our analysis we used net migration increase/decrease for 2012–2016 calculated on the basis of Municipal Formations’ Indicators database, which also 1) distinguishing between intraregional, interregional and international migration and 2) distributing migration data across 5-year age groups. The analysis shows that net migration patterns of large cities and their suburbs have no regional peculiarities: regional centers and their suburban areas attractive for migrants dominate in all parts of the country reflecting the centripetal trend of migration. Suburbs from regional capitals on average are differed not only more intensive migration increase, but also the peculiarities of its structure. While centers attract mostly young people, primarily at the age of enrolling into a university, suburbs are more popular destinations for families with children, middle-aged people and the elderly.
Supporting agencies: The study was fulfilled in the Institute of Geography, RAS with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 14-18- 00083 “Geography of recurrent mobility of population in rural-urban continuum”.
About the Author
N. V. Mkrtchyan
National Research University Higher School of Economics;
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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- Regional capitals and their suburbs are stable points of population growth in Russia. This growth is primarily provided by intraregional migration.
- In 2012–2016 suburbs were ahead of regional capitals in terms of migration growth rates. That is a sign of suburbanization.
- Centres attract young people looking for higher education opportunities. Suburbs attract people aged 30 years and older.
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Mkrtchyan N.V. Regional Capitals and Their Suburbs in Russia: Net Migration Patterns. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(6):26-38. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618060110
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