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The Moscow Capital Region: An Example of Accelerated Development

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This article is devoted to Moscow oblast and its interaction with Moscow. The latter largely explains the increased level of investment and retail turnover, and, most importantly, the attractiveness for the population. The share of Moscow oblast in the population and economy of the country is increasing against the background of depopulation of other regions of Central Russia. The uneven distribution of the population within Moscow oblast, which is converging closer to Moscow, is also growing. The maps of fractional municipal units show the dynamics of the population, the direction of its migration, as well as the change in the location of the manufacturing industry, retail trade and agricultural production. This reflects the decline in the role of industry in the municipalities closest to Moscow, while maintaining some large competitive enterprises, and the rapid development of logistics and trade. Industry, as well as agriculture, are relegated to the periphery of the region, where they enter into contradictory relationships with the expanding dacha use of the territory. The cities located to the northeast of Moscow (Mytishchi, Korolev, Pushkino, Ivanteevka, Sergiev Posad, etc.) are considered in more detail, including the change in their economic base and functions in the post-Soviet period.

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  1. Moscow, as an independent federal subject, cannot be the center of Moscow oblast.

  2. See the article by A.I. Treivish, O.B. Glezer, and T.G. Nefedova Old-Developed Regions in the Waves of Municipal Reform in this special issue.

  3. The change in the OKONKh industry classifier to OKVED and OKVED-2 makes it difficult to analyze changes in proportions, which can now only be assessed indirectly.

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The work was carried out at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project no. 19-17-00174 and within the framework of the state budget research topic of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University no. 1.17 “Modern dynamics and factors of socio-economic development of regions and cities of Russia and the countries of the Near Abroad.”

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Makhrova, A.G. The Moscow Capital Region: An Example of Accelerated Development. Reg. Res. Russ. 12 (Suppl 1), S105–S122 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970522700381

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