Centralization and Urbanization

Olga Medinskaya () and Henk R. Randau ()
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Chapter 20 in Russia Business, 2021, pp 157-163 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Moscow has traditionally been Russia’s center of political and economic power for many centuries. Due to rising population in the city’s metropolitan area, the city governance incorporated in 2012 some areas of the Moscow Oblast into the city proper, thereby expanding the city’s size by 240%. Even after the expansion, it still covers only 1.5% of the Russian territory but is home to about 10% of the RF’s population and generates more than 20% of the country’s GDP. The official statistics do not even show the full magnitude: the mayor of Moscow estimated in 2017 that up to 25 million people are living in the Moscow city area and the entire Moscow Oblast together—that is about 5 million more than the official statistics document. The excess population is mostly made up of those without a residency permit. Many are illegal residents from former Soviet republics seeking employment in Moscow.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64613-4_20

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