Authors : I.T. Gaisin, R.I. Gaisin, E.I. Vlasova, N.V. Shigapova and G.S. Samigullina
Abstract: The study considers the the dynamics of the urban population in the republics of the Volga Federal District (VFD) Russia: Bashkortostan, Mari El, Mordovia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia from 1990-2013. The main factors affecting to the changing in the urban population in these republics: decline in industrial production; internal and external migration; deterioration of the socio-economic conditions of the population, especially in small cities and towns associated with unemployment; aggravation of environmental problems in large cities and others. Of the 6 republics of the VFD the positive dynamics of the urban population is observed only in the Republic of Tatarstan to 197 thous. people from 1990-2012. And in the other republics of VFD there are negative indicators of the dynamics of the urban population.
I.T. Gaisin, R.I. Gaisin, E.I. Vlasova, N.V. Shigapova and G.S. Samigullina, 2016. Changes in the Urban Population in the Republic of the Volga Federal District of Russia. International Business Management, 10: 5298-5300.