Сельская джентрификация в российском Нечерноземье

Вестник Московского университета. Серия 5: География. 2022. № 6. С. 119–128.

Averkieva K.

Against the background of ongoing migration outflow of rural residents to cities, the process of city dwellers transfer to rural areas is hardly noticeable, particularly if they do not change their city registration or live in rural areas seasonally. However, the influx of new residents has a great impact on rural areas, since city people have rich social capital and other resources to transform rural areas. Using the example of Verkhovazhsky district, where field studies have been conducted for several years, it is shown how city dwellers are involved in various types of rural economic and social life or offer new types of activities. Villages along the Vaga River valley host a base for restorers of wooden architecture, a center for wood-burning ceramic products, a museum of ancient horse harness and other objects created by city dwellers. At the same time, former city people also work at ordinary objects of rural social infrastructure, such as schools, cultural centers, shops, rural administrations, offering practices accepted in the cities, e.g. public lectures, book-crossing, separate garbage collection, rural second-hand, to rural residents.

Keywords: Вологодская область, Нечерноземье, сельско-городская миграция, Central Non-Chernozem region, rural-urban migration, rural gentrification, сельская джентрификация, Vologda region