Стягивание населения России в крупные города и их пригороды

Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации. 2024. № 2(63). С. 241–248.

Mkrtchyan N. V.

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 centers (large cities of various sizes and their suburbs) and peripheral territories and analyze migration between them. The detail of the data makes it possible to delimit the fl ow to large cities from settlements of different sizes in peripheral territories, as well as to state the redistribution of the population among centers of different sizes in favor of the largest ones. The infl ux of the population to centers of different sizes, in turn, has specifi cs: residents of large settlements in the periphery move to the largest agglomerations. The smaller the center, the more its migration increase is provided by residents of small settlements. Cities with less than 250 thousand inhabitants and their suburbs did not have a migration increase in population, because the infl ux from the periphery could not compensate for their migration loss into larger centers. All calculations were made taking into account the distorting infl uence of auto return on the scale of population fl ow.

Keywords: внутренняя миграция, агломерации, крупные города, periphery, периферия, миграция населения, internal migration, пригороды, suburbs, agglomerations, population migration, Large cities