“…LLM research in Russia in the post-Soviet period was mainly based on periodic data from sample surveys (e.g., in relation to the most problematic group, single-industry towns (see Kuznetsova, 2003;Lyubovny et al, 2001;Mikryukov, 2016;Vlasova et al, 1999), or devoted to one of the main aspects determining specifics of LLM functioning as part of an agglomeration: labor commuting (Makhrova and Bochkarev, 2018;Makhrova and Kirillov, 2015) and otkhodnichestvo (Mkrtchyan and Florinskaya, 2016;Nefedova, 2015;Plyusnin et al, 2013). Generalizing works in which the situation in the LLM of municipalities would be considered are rare in Russia (Antonov, 2016;Mezhdu domom ..., 2016;Treyvish and Nefedova, 2010).…”