Dynamics of urban settlement systems in the Russian Federation, 2002–2020

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The article examines the general trends of the urbanization process in the Russian Federation in the second half of the XX - the first quarter of the XXI centuries.  Analysis of the dynamics of the number and share of the urban population in the Russian Federation for 1960–2019.  showed that during the period under review, there was a multidirectional dynamic of indicators, with a general growth trend.  An assessment of the Russian settlement system using the Zipf curve in 2002 and 2020 revealed that the real distribution of Russian cities in terms of population does not fully correspond to the Zipf curve for either developed or developing countries.  The work resulted in typologies of the 50 largest cities in terms of population dynamics (in terms of absolute and relative indicators).  The spatial patterns of the location of cities of various types in the Russian Federation were identified: in the center of the European part of the Russian Federation, there are mainly cities with minimal growth, with low growth and below average growth; in the south - cities with above average growth and high growth; in Siberia - with an average increase. The article proposes methods for optimizing the Russian system of urban settlement.

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Yana Alexandrovna Usanova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Author for correspondence.
Email: 1032201956@rudn.ru

Student, Faculty of Economics

117198, Moscow, Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6

Veronika Nikolaevnа Kholina

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: kholina-vn@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2565-6244
SPIN-code: 5021-7870
Scopus Author ID: 55650366800

Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department. Regional Economics and Geography, Faculty of Economics

117198, Moscow, Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6

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