Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
This article aims to analyse the development of Russia’s North-Western Federal District (NWFD) regions between 1998 and 2021, based on data from Rosstat. It focuses on how the territories responded to migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration in the early 21st century and compares their progress with the cores of the St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Helsinki agglomerations. For building the models, regions with similar development dynamics were divided into four sectors: St. Petersburg,...
Comparative analysis of the territorial support frame of settlement in coastal areas: the case of St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad regions
... theoretical approaches to the core-periphery analysis of cities and describe the role of coastal regions;
— to carry out a comparative analysis of the established elements of territorial support frames of settlement in the St. Petersburg metropolitan agglomeration and the Kaliningrad region;
— to analyse the settlement systems in the study regions from the perspective of transport communications.
Theoretical framework
Modern approaches to urbanisation are anchored in the recognition of the special ...
Spatial structure and development of settlements in the Saint Petersburg agglomeration
This article explores the spatial structure and development of settlements comprising the Saint Petersburg agglomeration. Previous studies and database sources, which were never used before (the Federal Tax Service [FTS] database and SPARK-Interfax), are analysed to reveal factors in the economic development of metropolitan areas as well as to understand how ...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... the Russian Federation) and macroregions (usually federal districts). The studies of the differences among smaller territorial units are much less common, and they focus mainly on demographic issues or the development of certain types of territories: agglomerations, single-industry towns, and rural areas.
The reasons are understandable: it is not only the laboriousness of working with municipalities but also,<1> to an even greater extent, the significant gap in regional and municipal statistical ...
Development of municipal districts in Saint Petersburg over the last decade: an economic and spatial analysis
... technological and economic development of the macro-region “North-West”], St. Petersburg, October 23—24, 2018, p. 198—204 (in Russ.).
5. Lachininskii, S. S., Sorokin, I. S. 2021, Spatial Structure and Development of Settlements in the Saint Petersburg Agglomeration, Balt. Reg., vol. 13, № 1, p. 48—69. doi:
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6. Reznikov, I. L. 2017, Identification of the boundaries of the St. Petersburg urban agglomeration, Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... got saturated with digital services, the digital divide between Russian regions narrowed. Overall, the Internet use patterns are consistent with those of the spatial diffusion of innovations. Amongst the leaders, there are regions home to the largest agglomerations and northern territories of Russia, whereas those having a high proportion of rural population lag behind. Coastal and border regions (St. Petersburg, the Kaliningrad region, Karelia, Primorsky Krai, etc.) have better access to the Internet ...
Agglomerations management practices abroad
The practice of managing large urban agglomerations in the status of metropolitan areas is underrepresented in modern Russian conditions. Spatial planning documents concerning agglomerations usually do not reflect the realities and relations within these formations, which have de facto existed ...
Problems of the development of pre-agglomeration (semiperipheral) municipalities on the example of the Gvardeysk urban district
The influence of agglomeration processes on nearby territories in the modern realities of spatial development of Russia is updated every day. The formation of growth points and the relationship between the center and the periphery affects both economic and social issues,...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... on a yes/no scale against the five criteria. No region scored the maximum of five. The Republic of Karelia, St. Petersburg and the Murmansk region scored between two and three (red). The Leningrad region raked in the middle with a more ‘anxious’ agglomeration part abutting St. Petersburg and the more remote periphery (yellow). The Kaliningrad, Novgorod and Pskov regions scored the lowest (green).
Let us look at the types of restrictions by region in effect as of the end of 2020 (Table 5). Mass ...
Information metabolism and innovation dynamics in the Rostov agglomeration: the role of the coastal factor and economic clustering
... geo-economic conditions that complicates international economic and technological cooperation. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the information metabolism processes as the basis of innovative development taking place in the Rostov agglomeration being the largest coastal agglomeration in the South of Russia. Given the proposed concept model of information metabolism, the study recreates the general picture of the cyclic spatio-temporal dynamics of innovations in coastal agglomerations,...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... of Russian society, which added to the effect of the already existing core-periphery gradient. Subsequent geopolitical events, coupled with economic and natural factors, prompted the population of Russia’s Far East to concentrate in the Vladivostok agglomeration, this process becoming evident as early as the 2010s. A notable example is the population growth by 11 % in the town of Bolshoy Kamen, home to a major shipbuilding company, Zvezda, which was observed between 2010 and 2021.
The rivalry between ...
Rural area as a peripheral zone: the verdict or potential
Changes in the spatial structure of rural settlement, which occur primarily under the influence of structural transformations in the economy, turn urban agglomerations into the drivers of growth. The periphery becomes, as a rule, depressive. This forces the regional authorities to work out programs for the regional development of peripheral territories characterized as backward areas with depopulation ...
Transformation of the settlement system in the Kaliningrad region
... Russia, the center-peripheral model of economic development directly affects the transformation of the regional settlement system. Over the past 10 years, the dynamics of the population in rural settlements of the region has been determined by agglomeration and transport-geographical factors. The analysis of changes in the population of 1,068 settlements in the region (excluding cities and urban-type settlements) and their transport and geographical position resulte in conclusions on the ...
Transport connectivity as a factor in overcoming challenges of the periphery: the case of rural areas in the Kaliningrad region
... areas with different transport and geographical situations. Although the overall transport connectivity is high in the region, up to 10 per cent of villages score low on this parameter. We conclude that the demographic saturation of the Kaliningrad agglomeration has not been completed. Moreover, the smallness of the local consumer market impedes the formation of subregional centres in the eastern part of the region. The most alarming trend is the incipient concentration of population in peripheral ...
The development of a Russian-Polish cross-border region: the role of the Kaliningrad agglomeration and the Tri-City (Gdansk—Gdynia—Sopot)
... contributors to cross-border region-building. On either side of the border, there are socio-economic nodes between which axes of cross-border interaction are emerging. The most powerful axis is the Tri-City (Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot) — the Kaliningrad agglomeration. A systemic approach is used to analyse a variety of relationships, reflected in a map showing the diversity of geographical areas of cooperation. The University of Gdansk and the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University are playing an important ...
Modern understanding of ‘geoeconomic position’ and the Saint Petersburg agglomeration
This article presents a modern interpretation of the concept of ‘geoeconomic situation’ as applied to one of the most important centers of the Baltic region — the St. Petersburg agglomeration. The coastal location of the agglomeration and close connections with the Leningrad region make it possible to consider the Saint Petersburg coastal region (Baltic Area) as a whole. The article sets out not only to verify, confirm, and explain ...
Settlement system of the Kaliningrad region: dasymetric analysis
... approaches (buffer zone delineation and grid methods) of the settlement system and mapping of the territory in the Kaliningrad Oblast are demonstrated using GIS tools. Areas of the highest population concentration within the region, coinciding with the agglomeration's influence territory, have been identified. A decrease in population density to the east of Kaliningrad is also shown. For the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad region, the area and density of inhabited territories have been calculated....
From the editor
... significance of investigating Russian territories at a level of not only regions but also municipalities, with the latter revealing the contrasts between urban and rural areas. Moreover, this approach makes it possible to describe the formation of urban agglomerations and accurately assess the impact of a territory’s geographical position and economic specialisation on its socio-economic development.
When analysing the geopolitical and geo-economic situation of Russia’s Baltic regions, contributors ...
The urban environment quality in the Leningrad region in 2018—2021
... of the urban environment in more than 1,114 cities. The paper takes the case of the Leningrad region to consider a number of hypotheses about the correspondence between the Urban Environment Quality Index (UEQI) values, the city’s remoteness from agglomeration centers, population changes and migration growth, absolute population and municipal budget expenditures. The use of cartographic and mathematical methods made it possible to conclude that there is no significant direct correlation between ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... of the population). Latvia is divided into five planning regions: Riga and Pierīga, Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Latgale. Most Latvian towns are steadily losing population at a rate of about 12— 13 % every 10 years. The towns comprising the Riga agglomeration — Salaspils, Olaine, Ikšķile, Lielvārde, Baloži — are experiencing a population increase at a rate of about 6 % every 10 years. Interregional migration from the periphery to the centre, to major municipal and regional towns is triggered ...
Structural changes in the economy of the Russian North-West regions: institutional factor
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Spatial diffusion of Asian direct investments in the northern European EU countries
... internationalisation, not affected by the ‘neighbourhood effect’, and contrasted them with Western European investors. We confirmed the validity of the hierarchical wavelike model of the FDI spatial diffusion with the dominance of metropolitan urban agglomerations. It was also found that mergers and acquisitions are dominant forms of FDI in developed countries. Their ascendancy leads both to a distortion of the geographical pattern of subsidiaries networks of investor companies and to the intention ...
Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region
... factor in concentration of service renders. It is revealed that there is a significant gap in innovation susceptibility both between urban and rural settlements, and within rural settlements, depending on their proximity to a densely populated urban agglomeration, significant highways, large industrial and port infrastructure.
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Innovative development priorities of the major coastal agglomerations of the European part of Russia
The innovation development dynamics of coastal regions is under the growing influence of the agglomeration factor and the coastalization factor, which results in polarizing the innovation space around large cities and urban agglomerations in the coastal zone. Coastal agglomerations act as drivers for regional development, concentrating a significant ...
Innovative development of Russian coastal regions: north–south divergence
... and digitalisation, and quality and standards of living. All these components are vital for regional innovative development. A statistical assessment is supplemented by a qualitative analysis of spatial patterns of innovation capital accumulation; the agglomeration factor is taken into account. It is shown that northern and southern coastal regions perform very differently on innovative development, the latter doing better than the former. Three main models of innovation generation, implementation,...
Platform Markets: Their Place in the Theory of Mesoeconomic System: Development and a Challenge to Spatial Studies
... disseminated by the most successful platforms. Similarly to economic zones and clusters, platform markets are two-factor mesoeconomic systems. In this article, I consider the differences between two-factor systems and traditional one-factor groupings (agglomerations, industries, and conglomerates). I present a general theoretical framework for studying two-factor mesoeconomic systems, which is employed in a comparative analysis. A specific feature of platforms is the contribution of digital technology ...
The dynamics of agricultural land use in the North-West of Russia and the Baltic countries
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The influence of the transport factor on the investment competitiveness of coastal regions in the European part of Russia.
... Russia, where large urbanized spaces have already been developed or are being developed, are of the greatest potential compared to other regions of the country. It makes perfect sense to set up large economic centers capable of harnessing the benefits of agglomeration and seaside factors in such regions. A tool to improve the level of economic development and investment attractiveness of these regions is the implementation of large trasnsport infrastructure projects. The article analyzes how the ...
Sanctions risks and regional development: Russian case
... Leningrad regions, Primorsky Krai). These regions face the greatest risks [29], but in some of them there are also higher opportunities for the development of small and medium-sized domestic enterprises in the service sector [30], for example, in large agglomerations and near them: in Moscow, the Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod regions.
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Estimated share of foreign companies from unfriendly countries in the total revenue of regional organizations in 2018—2021, %
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Regional railway transport system of the Transcaucasia: passenger direction of work
... potential is underutilized: the volume of transportation is minimal, the movement intensity is low, and on a significant portion of the network, passenger transport has been completely discontinued. One notable exception in recent years is the Baku agglomeration. The decline can be attributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent fragmentation of the region's railway network, competition from air and road transport, as well as the specific transport policies in the countries ...
Prospects for the development of the forest park protective belt of Moscow
... index has been conducted, allowing for the identification of three most probable scenarios for the further development of different parts of the forest-park protective belt of Moscow.
Zabelin I.A., Golubeva E.I.
Ecology of the city, Moscow agglomeration, ecological functions, forest park protective belt, integrated assessment, development scenarios
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Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... relations and functions of Northwest Russia since it is here that the ‘fragility’ of cross-border interactions (resulting from the geopolitical and geoeconomic reformatting of the Eurasian space) is most clearly manifested [7].
The St. Petersburg agglomeration and the surrounding regions are expected to be the first to feel the consequences of the crisis [8]. Considering the spatial diffusion of the coronavirus infection in the Russian part of the Baltic macroregion, by parity of reasoning, we ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... devices
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Note. For this variable, there is the factor with the highest revealed value of the Spearman rank correlation coefficient (moderate) indicated. To avoid distortion, the calculations do not include highly urbanized Moscow and St. Petersburg agglomerations.
Developed by the authors (data sources — Table 2) using StatTech v. 3.1.6 software.
Significant correlations were found between the following indicators: ‘The share of communication and internet costs in the average per capita income’ ...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... following conclusions can be drawn from the present study.
1. The Kaliningrad region has not been immune to the characteristic trend of current global development: its economy and settlement system are polarising, with the population concentrating in agglomerations and the periphery experiencing economic decline.
2. At the national level, polarisation is a result of large holding companies accounting for an increasing proportion of agricultural production, declining employment in the industry in the ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... and increasing the volume of housing construction to at least 120 million square meters per year;
• improving the quality of the urban environment by one and a half times;
• making sure that at least 85% of the road network in the largest urban agglomerations meets regulatory requirements;
• creating a sustainable solid municipal waste management system that ensures 100% waste sorting and reduces the volume of waste sent to landfills by half;
• reducing emissions of hazardous pollutants ...
The impact of the food embargo on consumer preferences and cross-border practices in the Kaliningrad region
... the border with Poland. More than 70 % of people buying prohibited products made purchases this way. Purchasing in small private stores is most typical for residents of cities (Kaliningrad, Sovetsk) and municipalities gravitating to the Kaliningrad agglomeration (Guryevsk and Zelenogradsk municipal districts), Baltiysk city district. Residents of the districts on the Polish border tended to shop for groceries abroad while travelling independently: these are Bagrationovsk (42 %), Gusev (24 %), and ...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... closure of factories that existed before the 1990s and the decline in manufacturing employment led to a decrease in population. However, new industrial enterprises have emerged in the suburban areas adjacent to Poznan, which are part of the larger Poznan agglomeration. As a result, the decline in population in Poznan is primarily a formal one, as the city’s influence and urban development extend beyond its immediate boundaries and encompass the surrounding territory.
The largest group of voivodeships ...
Migration distances in Russia: a demographic profile of migrants
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Results
According to the calculations, 43.5 % of all domestic migrations are within the range of 100 km (Table 1, Fig. 2). Almost a third of migrants move 50 km or less, i. e., a distance that can be covered by a commuter, for example, in the Moscow agglomeration [35]. Russia is a very large country, where, as Andrei Treivish demonstrated [36, p. 252], the average distance between major cities is from 45 to 75 km even in the relatively densely populated European part (compared with 10—20 km in ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... technical progress of countries is an indicator of the development of industrial relations, and other related governmental and social institutions [2]. Thus, increased investment in science has a positive effect on GDP [26], and the economic growth of agglomerations is promoted by knowledge-intensive industries [27].
For over a decade, the evolution of global economic relations has transpired within the framework of globalization and internationalization. The advent of GPS has inevitably resulted ...
Attractiveness of the Kaliningrad region: pull factors and reasons for disappointments of migrants from Russian regions
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The marine component of human geography studies in Post-Soviet Russia: key trends and development priorities
.... S., Sorokin, I. S., Mikhaylov, A. S., Samusenko, D. N., Mikhaylova, A. A. 2019, Coastal cities and aglomeration in the innovative stace of western Russia, Regional Research of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 396—405.
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Center-peripheral dimension of innovative security in the Western border regions of Russia (the case of the Rostov region)
... supporting the entrepreneurial infrastructure and infrastructure of e-commerce. The focus is made on identifying differences between urban and rural settlements in terms of involvement in the innovation process. An assessment of the impact of agglomeration and coastal factors on the diffusion of innovations at the inter-municipal level is given: from the agglomeration center to the periphery and from coastal and conditionally coastal municipalities inland. The center-peripheral trends ...
On the implementation of social innovation in rural area Kaliningrad oblas
Social innovations are important for solving the problems of rural development, since due to the intensification of polarization processes, the backlog of living conditions in rural areas from cities increases. Based on the statistical reporting and agricultural censuses, the article assesses the changes and spatial distribution of production, social and demographic processes in rural areas of the Kaliningrad region over the past three decades. The differences in the situation in the west (in...
Migration attractiveness of the coastal zone of Russia’s North-West: local gradients
... However, there are attraction poles farther north too, and the coastal zone of the Arkhangelsk region attracts more migrants than its inland part. The study demonstrates the growing polarisation of migration space in the coastal areas and especially agglomerations. Changes in the age structure of immigration flows have caused social factors in attractiveness to migrants to replace employment-related factors.
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The effect of geographical position and employment fluctuations on rural settlement trends
... fundamental alterations in the national settlement system. Settlement polarisation is gathering momentum, along with the movement of rural population from Russia’s east and north to its southern and metropolitan regions. These processes benefit urban agglomerations. Typological differences between regional settlement systems, still poorly understood but essential for strategic and spatial planning, are growing. This article draws on the concept of the geographical demographic situation; it uses official ...
The coasts we live in: can there be a single definition for a coastal zone?
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National urban policy in Russia and the European experience
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Typology of small towns in the western borderland regions of Russia
Recognizing the leading role of large urban agglomerations in the development of any region, it should be noted that small towns perform their equally important function as reference points in the regional framework of the settlement system. In strategic regions, like the ones of the Western ...
Coastal and western border centers in the system of large cities of modern Russia: socio-economic and innovation development.
... improving the urban environment quality, the need to retain and attract human capital, to rethink the center-periphery structure of the modern Russia’s space in its projection on the coastal and border area, including the frame of large cities and agglomerations.
1. Горочная В. В. Информационный метаболизм и динамика инноваций Ростовской агломерации: роль приморского фактора и экономической ...
Geopolitical turbulence and its economic and geographical projections: the case of Russia’s western border regions
... vision of geopolitical turbulence as a permanent (poorly predictable and only partially regulated) series of changes in the global political order as a whole and in the position of a particular country and its spatial units — regions and large urban agglomerations. Such changes are obvious and significant for society; they are reflected in the public consciousness and embodied in scientific discourse.
Druzhinin A.G.
geopolitics, geopolitical turbulence, Russia, Western Borderlands, regions,...