TY - JOUR T1 - Changes in the Urban Population in the Republic of the Volga Federal District of Russia AU - Gaisin, I.T. AU - Gaisin, R.I. AU - Vlasova, E.I. AU - Shigapova, N.V. AU - Samigullina, G.S. JO - International Business Management VL - 10 IS - 22 SP - 5298 EP - 5300 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2016.5298.5300 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.5298.5300 KW - Population KW -the city KW -the dynamics KW -the country KW -urbanization KW -urban settlement KW -Federal District AB - 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. ER -