URBAN DEVELOPMENT SVERDLOVSK REGION IN THE XX - XXI CENTURIES (A BRIEF HISTORY)

Abstract

Purpose. Study of the shaping of Sverdlovsk region urban settlements in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in the context of nationwide modernization policy. Methods. Based on data from population censuses, vital events of the current accounting bodies of state statistics provides data on population dynamics and pace of development of the Sverdlovsk region urban population for the period from 1926 to 2010 author analyzed the factors that led to these changes. Scientific novelty. Formation of a system of cities, intraregional differences in the pace of urbanization seen in the context of the historical and socio-economic development of the region. The acceleration of urbanization process is carried out in line with the nationwide modernization model, the implementation of which has contributed to the concentration and integration of various forms and types of material and spiritual activities. Urban population growth was carried out mainly at the expense of the territorial population movements (migration), the extent, direction and nature of which are consistent with the theory of migration transition. Analysis of the development of cities in the region at the beginning of the twenty-first century has revealed the emergence of trends in preferred living in rural areas.