Regional features of population dynamics in Russia in the post-Soviet period

Borodina, Tatiana

doi:10.1134/s2079970517010014

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“…For example, in Central Russia, between 1959 and1989, the population density in the countryside fell by more than half (Lukhmanov 2001). None of the regions that lost population in the late Soviet period experienced population growth after the collapse of the Soviet Union, while the regions that are growing now were also gaining population before 1991 (Borodina 2017).…”

Section: Post-soviet Rural Depopulation Through Different Theoreticalmentioning

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“…Some scholars focus on the effects of the neoliberal economic model and globalization on population movements in former socialist countries and stress the effects of the rising spatial inequality (see, for example, Golubchikov, Badyina, and Makhrova 2014;Leibert 2013;PoSCoPP 2015). Others tend to explain rural depopulation as the continuation of a longterm trend that had already started in the socialist period (see, for example, Alekseev and Safronov 2015;Borodina 2017;Zubarevich 2013). This paper aims to contribute to these debates.…”

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Decreasing labor intensity in agriculture and the accessibility of major cities shape the rural population decline in postsocialist Russia

Sheludkov

Kamp

Müller

2020

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Rural population decline has been observed in most developed and emerging economies but has been especially apparent in postsocialist countries. In this paper, we investigate the spatial patterns and the determinants of the rural population dynamics during the transition period from 1991 to 2010 in Tyumen Province, Russia, with the aim of better understanding the forces underlying depopulation. We use descriptive and exploratory statistical tools to analyze data from population censuses and district-level statistics of agriculture. Our results reveal distinct differences in the spatial clusters of the population increase and decline in the first and second decades of the post-Soviet era. We argue that these differences reflect the penetration of market relations into the countryside. The emergence of market forces initially advantaged the areas that were more suited to agriculture, which experienced population growth in the 1990s. Later, the drop in agricultural output, market-driven restructuring of farms, and introduction of labor-saving technologies reduced employment in agriculture. During the 2000s, labor opportunities in agriculture were no longer statistically related to rural population dynamics, while population dynamics in the villages have increasingly been determined by transport accessibility to larger markets, especially to the provincial capital. Governments need to be sensitive to these spatial and temporal population dynamics to foster opportunities in the countryside, avoid the negative side effects of depopulation on local economies and ensure the provision of social services.

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Section: Post-soviet Rural Depopulation Through Different Theoreticalmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Decreasing labor intensity in agriculture and the accessibility of major cities shape the rural population decline in postsocialist Russia

Sheludkov

Kamp

Müller

2020

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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“…Among the factors affecting the residential structure across BSR are the significant changes in the demographic profile (Berzins and Zvidrins, 2011;Hanell, 2000;Manakov et al, 2017;Michalski, 2001), the shift in the economy structure of the post-Soviet space (Glinkina and Kulikova, 2016;Kuznetsova, 2013;Sluka and Ivanov, 2014;Ubarevičienė and Burneika, 2015), and the coastal location of individual countries and regions. The coastal urban settlements of the BSR have become a particular subject for classification and analysis (Fedorov et al, 2017;Borodina, 2016;Enyedi, 1996;Lachininsky and Semenova, 2015), including the ones based on the level of metropolization (Druzhinin, 2014) and transnational cooperation (Palmowski and Tarkowski 2018;Bussmann and Nickel, 2018;Heininen, 2017;Pikner, 2008). Regional and local differences in population dynamics of coastal territories illustrate the centreperiphery gradients within the BSR, indicating the discreteness of its economic and socio-cultural space.…”

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Population Dynamics in the Coastal Urban Settlements of the Baltic Sea Region

DRUZHININ¹,

GONTAR²,

Mikhaylov³

2019

JSSP

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“…An important indicator is the unemployment rate in the region, which indirectly affects the processes of interregional migration. Borodina (2017) in the study of regional features of population dynamics states that migration growth is concentrated in a limited number of regions. The steady trend of the last two decades is the strengthening of the spatial unevenness of population dynamics processes, which leads to a significant polarization of environment.…”

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