Population change in the regional centres and internal periphery of the regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus over the period of 1990-2000s

• Main Authors: Karachurina Liliya, Mkrtchyan Nikita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2015-06-01
• Series: Bulletin of Geography: Socio-Economic Series
• Subjects: cities; districts; population dynamics; centre; periphery
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2015-0018

The paper looks into the dynamics of the population size of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus after the census of 1989. Regions and cities of these countries were the focus of the research (territorial units level NUTS-3). The analysis addresses the question to what degree the remoteness from the regional centre, i.e. the position in the core-periphery system, influences the dynamics of the population size of the territorial units of the given level. For the analytical purposes the distinction has been made between the regional centres including adjacent suburban areas and internal regional periphery comprising districts and cities. The main indicator employed was the distance between the periphery areas and regional centres.