Evaluation of the Development Potential of Russian Cities



1996 (1.01.)

148,0

108,1

39,9

73,0

1997 (1.01.)___________

147,5

_________107,8________

________39,7

73,1

1998 (1.01.)___________

147,1

_________107,5_________

________39,6

73,1

1999 (1.01.)___________

146,7

_________107,3_________

________39,4

73,1

2000 (1.01.)___________

145,9

_________106,5_________

________39,4

73,0

* Present Territory of Russia

Russian Statistical Year-Book 2000. Moscow, 2000

The drastic changes in the demographic situation, the increasing depopulation of a series of
regions as well as the real drop in the population growth in cities, which during the course of
many decades show a tendency of uninterrupted growth, influenced the developmental
perspectives of the Russian cities to a likewise considerable extent. The large cities and even
the "million-cities" with a continuing increase in the number of inhabitants show in recent
years a tendency of stabilising or even a retrogressive development in the number of
inhabitants. Table 2 shows the decline in the population numbers of million-population cities
(Table 2).

Table 2. Cities of Russia of more than 1,000,000 Population

Rank
1998
(1970)

City

Economic
Region

Population (1,000 Residents)

Population Trends

1970

1979

1989

1991

2000

1991:

1970

2000:

1991

T(1)

Moscow

Central

Region______

7,194*

7,063

8,142*

7,970

8,972*

8,782

9,003*

8,809

8,630*

8,389

125,1%

124,7%

95,8%

95,2%

7(2)

St.Petersburg

Northwest

Region______

4,033

4,588

5,024

5,035

4,694

124,8%

93,2%

173)

Nizhny
Novgorod
(Gorky)________

Volga-Vyatka
Region

1,170

1,344

1,403

1,409

1,357

120,4%

96,3%

7(4)

Novosibirsk

West Siberian
Region

1,179

1,334

1,420

1,431

1,399

121,4%

97,8%

7(6)

Yekaterinburg
(Sverdlovsk)

Ural Region

1,025

1,211

1,298

1,309

1,266

127,8%

96,7%

7(5)

Samara
(Kuibyshev)

Volga Region

1,027

1,198

1,220

1,222

1,156

119,0%

94,6%

7 (10)

Omsk

West Siberian
Region

"821

1,014

1,148

1,167

1,149

142,1%

98,5%

8 (8)

Kazan________

Volga Region

869

993

1,094

1,105

1,101

127,2%

99,6%

9 (13)

Ufa___________

Volga Region

780

978

1,078

1,097

1091

140,6%

99,5%

10 (7)

Cheliabinsk

Ural Region

875

1,030

1,107

1,114

1,083

127,3%

97,2%

11 (9)

Perm_________

Ural Region

850

999

1,040

1,049

1,010

123,4%

96,3%

12 (12)

Rostov-on-Don

North
Caucasus
Region______

789

934

1,019

1,028

1,013

130,3%

98,5%

13 (11)

Volgograd_____

Volga Region

815

928

997

1,005

993

123,3%

98,8

* Subordinated to the City Administration

Russian Statistical Year-Book 2000. Moscow, 2000.

In addition to these factors, one should also take into account the consequences of the
migration process, which in the last few years has become a serious problem: the resettlement



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