-
Article
Moscow Oblast: Territorial Structure of Post-Soviet Transformations
The article, written for the anniversary of G.M. Lappo, is dedicated to Moscow oblast as one of his key regions. The influence of Moscow on the territory of the oblast is considered, including according to cel...
-
Article
Post-Soviet Trajectories of Russian Shrinking Cities
The objective of the article is to assess the scale and dynamics of shrinkage of cities in Russia and its regions in the post-Soviet period. Urban shrinkage analysis, based on the average annual index of popul...
-
Article
The Latest History of the Development of Kazakhstan’s Urban Agglomerations
The article studies the current stage of development of Kazakhstan’s agglomerations, the incentivized formation of which has become a state policy priority. Due to the lack of criteria, the boundaries of poten...
-
Article
The Year of COVID: A Migration Reversal?
This article is devoted to the study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the processes of sub- and de-urbanization in Russia and the specifics of the return and seasonal dacha mobility of urban populatio...
-
Article
The Moscow Capital Region: An Example of Accelerated Development
This article is devoted to Moscow oblast and its interaction with Moscow. The latter largely explains the increased level of investment and retail turnover, and, most importantly, the attractiveness for the po...
-
Article
Official and “Real” Cities: The Case Study of Moscow Metropolitan Area
This article considers methodological approaches to delimitation of cities and towns and criteria of such delimitation in the case of a large urban agglomeration based on the example of the Moscow metropolitan...
-
Article
Temporary Mobility and Population Pulsations in Space of Post-Soviet Russia
The paper summarizes recent studies by Russian researchers on various types of temporary mobility and related population pulsations. It is shown that the practice of their study in Russia is in line with the k...
-
Article
Moscow Dachas: Will the Second Home Become the First?
The article presents the results of an analysis of the distribution and nature of the use of second suburban housing (second homes) in the Moscow capital region using an indicative approach based on data from ...
-
Article
The Seasonal Dacha Settlement Pattern as an Indicator of Spatial Development Contrasts
The article employs a number of seasonal settlement pattern indicators to reveal the degree of territorial contrast in the center of Russia at the level of municipalities in two cross sections. The first cross...
-
Article
Integrated Socioeconomic Development Index for Russian Cities
The article presents a methodology and results of calculating the integral multicomponent index of socioeconomic development of cities in the Russian Federation. The index is constructed from four key groups o...
-
Article
Methodological Approaches to the Delimitation of the Boundaries of the Moscow Agglomeration Based on Data from Mobile Network Operators
The article highlights the boundaries of the Moscow agglomeration and analyzes its spatial structure using approaches involving the concept of time geography. The study is based on a methodology for determinin...
-
Article
Largest Urban Agglomerations and Forms of Settlement Pattern at the Supra-Agglomeration Level in Russia
The paper analyzes the development trends of Russia’s largest urban agglomerations following the last census, in the period 2010–2018. According to the methodology, based on the functional and settlement patte...
-
Article
Trends in the Development of the New Moscow Sector of the Metropolitan Agglomeration
The article concerns the development of the spatial structure of the Moscow agglomeration in the first years of implementing plans for the development of New Moscow in comparison with Moscow with the old borde...
-
Article
Work commuting of the population in the Moscow agglomeration: Estimating commuting flows using mobile operator data
The paper estimates the scales and spatial structure of work commuting in the Moscow agglomeration using mobile operators data about network user locations and considers the attractiveness of the Moscow labor ...
-
Article
Seasonal pulsation of settlement pattern in the Moscow agglomeration under the influence of dacha and work commuting: Approaches to studies and assessment
This paper analyzes the domestic and foreign experience in accounting of dacha and work commuting as well as methodological approaches to their use to assess the number of dacha residents and commuters in the ...
-
Article
The role of organized cottage settlements in suburbanization processes in post-Soviet Russia
The patterns of the establishment of organized cottage settlements in suburban areas around Russia’s major cities are described, particularly the evolution of the types and sizes of organized cottage settlemen...
-
Article
Cities and social processes: Rethinking notions and concepts
Some categories used in Russian geography to analyze spatial aspects of social processes in cities are considered. The possibility to interpret the same terms differently is shown depending on scientific appro...
-
Article
Moscow agglomeration and “New Moscow”: The capital city-region case of Russia’s urbanization
The paper is focused on the development of the city of Moscow and its close and distant suburbs, as well as on the accompanying problems related to the specificity of Russia’s urbanization. A complex hierarchy...
