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Domestic Migration in Russia
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The problems of internal migration in Russia in the 2000s, changes in migration trends, the political debate on internal migration in Russia.
Balaban M., Корж П. А., Rodina O. et al., Демографическое обозрение 2026 Т. 13 № 1 С. 102–130
This article examines the relationship between migration activity and migration intentions among Russian city residents. It is a follow-up to an earlier study that focused on the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents and the characteristics of their places of residence as possible factors influencing migration intentions. Migration activity is considered as the combination of an individual's ...
Added: April 9, 2026
Poretskova A., Chebanova D., Социологические исследования 2026 № 3 С. 98–110
This article explores the activation of political identity among young people from various Russian regions through their subjective experience of relocating to megacities in Central Russia. To address the research question – what triggers the activation of political identity, and how does regional identity create a context for young people’s reflection on their political identity? ...
Added: March 4, 2026
Liliya Karachurina, Nikita Mkrtchyan, Population, Space and Place 2025 Vol. 31 No. 6 Article e70088
The paper explores the age‐specific vertical migration in Russia. Vertical migration is understood to be the population resettlement up and down the urban hierarchy–from small villages at the bottom, to large urban agglomerations (megapolises) at the top. The objective is to replicate the approach of Plane and others using the life‐course perspective within the context ...
Added: September 5, 2025
Anchikov K., Социальная психология и общество 2025 Т. 16 № 2 С. 10–22
Context and relevance. The topic is relevant from the perspective of the problem of youth outflow, which is characteristic of both Russian regions and individual territories within regions. One of the factors of youth migration is considered to be a sense of belonging to the local community. The desire for a sense of belonging is one ...
Added: July 2, 2025
Mkrtchyan N. V., Regional Research of Russia 2024 Vol. 14 No. 4 P. 585–597
The migration attractiveness of large cities and their suburbs (centers) and outflow of population from the periphery in Russia is a well-known fact. Using detailed spatial data, the study analyzes the spatial diversity of the migration balance of 137 selected centers, represented by cities with populations of 100000 people or more and their suburbs, and ...
Added: January 19, 2025
Varshavskaya E., Denisenko M. B., Вопросы экономики 2025 № 1 С. 44–70
The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of labor migration in Moscow, including all types of spatial mobility that are significant for the capital’s labor market. The research focuses on both international and internal migrants, including commuting labor migrants. The information base includes microdata from the Labor Force Survey by Rosstat, statistics of the Ministry of ...
Added: January 13, 2025
Efendiev A., Gogoleva A., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2024 Т. 17 № 1 С. 47–64
The number of regions in Russia experiencing a significant outflow of population is growing so the issue of internal migration is still on the agenda. A review of empirical studies of internal migration in Russia has shown that most of the studies devoted to the causes and consequences of migration are bounded to the economic ...
Added: January 6, 2025
Balaban M., Rodina O., Chertenkov K. et al., Демографическое обозрение 2024 Т. 11 № 4 С. 136–167
The purpose of the article is to analyze what socio-demographic characteristics and characteristics of the place of residence determine the presence or absence of migration intentions. The source of data was a survey database (6,823 questionnaires in total) collected by street survey method as part of expeditions in 10 regions of Russia in 2018-2023, devoted ...
Added: December 5, 2024
Mkrtchyan N. V., Региональные исследования 2024 № 1(83) С. 19–33
The migration appeal of major cities and their suburbs (centers) and the outflow of the population from the periphery in Russia is a well-documented phenomenon. Utilizing detailed spatial data, this study examines the spatial diversity of the migration balance of 137 identified centers, represented by cities with a population of 100,000 or more and their ...
Added: June 12, 2024
Mkrtchyan N. V., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2024 № 2(63) С. 241–248
The scale of population fl ow to large cities and their suburbs in Russia in 2011–2020. is estimated at 3.5–5.5 million people, because of migration these territories have signifi cantly increased their population during this period. During the calculations, individual depersonalized data were used, which made it possible, based on the author’s methodology, to identify ...
Added: June 12, 2024
Mkrtchyan N. V., Gilmanov R. I., Regional Research of Russia 2023 Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 305–315
Based on Russian data for 2011–2020, the population flow between seven levels of the settlement hierarchy has been estimated for the first time. Levels of the settlement hierarchy are represented by cities with different population sizes and their suburbs, as well as other urban and rural settlements. Indicators of migration increase (decrease) and demographic efficiency ...
Added: June 29, 2023
Sharepina E., Демографическое обозрение 2022 Т. 9 № 4 С. 104–125
The “Zemsky Doctor” program is celebrating the 10-year anniversary in 2022. Along with positive effects, researchers and experts have some concerns about its implementation and the controversial results achieved. Existing studies describe a socio-demographic profile of participating doctors without reference to the motivations and destination of relocation. This contradicts the integrated approach of migration process ...
Added: December 20, 2022
Чернышёва Н. С., Чжан Ю., Социологические исследования 2022 № 11 С. 135–143
An overview of the Russian scientific discussion on internal youth migration is offered. The first part contains statistical data on the age and educational composition of internal migrants, describes the types and main causes of youth migration. The second part analyzes discussions of Russian researchers about youth migration: attitudes and intentions, sense of place for ...
Added: November 29, 2022
Karachurina L. B., Mkrtchyan N. V., Savoskul M. S., Regional Research of Russia 2022 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 51–66
The development of population migration studies in Russia’s social geography in 2010–2021 is analyzed. Publications on this topic in leading geographical journals are studied. The possibilities of studying Russia’s internal population migration using new data are considered. Dissertations defended in Russia in the specialty “Economic, Social, Political, and Recreational Geography” are summarized. Based on the ...
Added: May 31, 2022
Karachurina L. B., Mkrtchyan N. V., Савоскул М. С., Известия РАН. Серия географическая 2022 Т. 86 № 3 С. 353–373
The development of population migration studies in Russia’s social geography in 2010–2021 is analyzed. Publications on this topic in leading geographical journals are studied. The possibilities of studying Russia’s internal population migration of using new data are considered. Dissertations defended in Russia in the specialty of “Economic, Social, Political, and Recreational Geography” are summarized. Based ...
Added: May 20, 2022
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Added: April 30, 2022
Abylkalikov S., Новые исследования Тувы 2021 № 4 С. 131–142
The article highlights the features of the population dynamics in Tuva from the mid-20th century to the present taking different components of the demographic balance into account. The main research methods the author uses are the demographic balance equation, which allows us to estimate the ratio between natural and migration growth of the entire population ...
Added: December 8, 2021
Андреева Е. А., Karachurina L. B., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 3 С. 316–338
The article identifies five strategies for migration to rural and remote areas of Tver region. The study is based on biographical interviews with fifteen medical doctors who have moved to the periphery as well as on interviews with eight experts in the field of health governing. The revealed strategies result from the interplay between push ...
Added: September 3, 2021
Kazenin K., Kozlov V. A., Journal of International Migration and Integration 2021 Vol. 1 No. 1 P. 1–21
This paper studies ethnic differences in the fertility of the descendants of migrants in a highly polyethnic region of Russia, Dagestan (North Caucasus). That region gives a rather rare example of an urban population whose majority is formed by migrants and their second- and third-generation descendants of several ethnicities which differ in fertility in their ...
Added: August 3, 2021
Почему люди уезжают из одних регионов и приезжают в другие: мотивы межрегиональной миграции в России
Mkrtchyan N. V., Florinskaya Y., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 5 С. 130–153
The motives of resettlement are a key issue in the study of migration. Factors that attract and repulse migration are analyzed via in-depth interviews with two groups of internal migrants: (1) emigrants from the Trans-Baikal Territory — one of the least migratory attractive regions of Russia, (2) immigrants to the Krasnodar Territory — one of ...
Added: November 17, 2020
Mkrtchyan N. V., Демографическое обозрение 2020 Т. 7 № 1 С. 83–99
The statistics of long-term internal migration in 2011 underwent serious changes related to the inclusion of persons registered not only at their place of residence, but also at their place of stay for a period of 9 months or more. As a result of these changes, a migrant whose registration has expired is immediately considered ...
Added: May 23, 2020
Zayonchkovskaya Z., Karachurina L. B., Mkrtchyan N. V. et al., В кн.: Население России 2017: двадцать пятый ежегодный демографический доклад.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2019. Гл. 6 С. 382–458.
Глава посвящена внутренней миграции населения в России по итогам 2017 года с учетом возможностей использования международных баз данных и информационных систем для проведения сравнительных исследований миграционной политики в России в международном контексте. ...
Added: December 26, 2019