I.T.  Gaisin, R.I.  Gaisin, E.I.  Vlasova, N.V.  Shigapova, G.S.  Samigullina, 
    Changes in the Urban Population in the Republic of the Volga Federal District of Russia,
    International Business Management,
    Volume 10,Issue 22,
    2016,
    Pages 5298-5300,
    ISSN 1993-5250,
    ibm.2016.5298.5300,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.5298.5300)
    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.
    Keywords: Population;the city;the dynamics;the country;urbanization;urban settlement;Federal District