Largest Urban Agglomerations and Super-Agglomerations in Russia
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-55662019431-45
Abstract
The paper attempts to analyze trends in development of the largest Russian urban agglomerations, which took place after the latest population census during 2010-2018. Research methodology is based on a functional approach engaging transport accessibility isochrones for delimitation of agglomeration cores. Core delimitation along with an analysis of population sizes and development index dynamics was carried out for 36 major agglomerations. The results of these calculations are presented for 4 alternatives: from “minimum” up to “maximum” indicators corresponding with the microzoning network developed by E.E. Leyzerovich. As no changes in number of agglomerations by development classes were unveiled the number of developed agglomerations still remains low. Tendencies of continued population concentration in major agglomerations and their cores are observed. Monocentric attribute of most of the largest agglomerations is shown based on a case study of the Moscow capital agglomeration. The study of the Central Russian megalopolis, which is a higher-level agglomerative structure under the process of formation, revealed its fragmentation and underdevelopment of lower-level agglomerations within.
Keywords
largest urban agglomerations,
delimitation,
development index,
urbanization,
Moscow capital agglomeration,
suburbanization,
megalopolis
Supporting agencies: The research was carried out by E.V. Antonov within the framework the Presidiun RAS Program for Basic Research and of the state-ordered research theme of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 0148-2019-0008 “Problems and prospects of the Russia’s territorial development in terms of its unevenness and global instability”, by A.G. Makhrova (part “Discussion of results”) in the “Community of Professional Sociologists” (Moscow, Russia) within the framework of the RFBR project no. 17-06-00396 “Social and natural-environmental factors of the urbanization/deurbanization processes in modern Russia (interdisciplinary macro- and microanalysis)”.
About the Authors
E. V. Antonov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
A. G. Makhrova
Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Russian Foreign Trade Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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- The current methods for the delimitation of urban agglomerations in Russia are based on the approaches of the Soviet time.
- Based on transport isochrones, the boundaries of largest urban agglomerations were identified around cores with a population of at least 250 thousand people.
- Since 2010, the number of the largest urban agglomerations (36) has not changed. In 2018, half of the entire Russian population lived there.
- The level of development of many urban agglomerations is low; the population and the coefficient of development are growing due to the cores.
- In Russia megalopolises are underdeveloped; the largest Central Russian megalopolis is still forming.
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Antonov E.V., Makhrova A.G. Largest Urban Agglomerations and Super-Agglomerations in Russia. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2019;(4):31-45. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587-55662019431-45
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