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The Balance of Regional Economic Space Along the Urban–Rural Line

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The article is devoted to finding a solution to the problem of ensuring a balanced regional economic space along the city–rural line. The authors’ methodological approach to assessing the balance of space, which is based on the integrated use of scoring methods and integral indicators, was proposed and tested using materials from the Vologda oblast. The method allows us to assess compliance in the region with the conditions of proportionality and consistency of development goals, as well as the connectivity of urban and rural areas.

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  1. In accordance with section “III. Main problems of spatial development of the Russian Federation” Strategies for spatial development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2025.

  2. Here and further in the text, “connectivity” is used to mean the characteristics of intensity, stability, parity of connections, interaction between city and village.

  3. See, for example: Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev held a meeting in Kazan on current issues of national security in the regions of the Volga Federal District, including the development of rural areas. // Security Council of the Russian Federation. http://www.scrf.gov.ru/news/allnews/3252/.

  4. By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated June 25, 2022 No. 1704-r, the main directions of spatial development of the Russian Federation specified in the Strategy were adjusted. In particular, one of them was designated “ensuring the expansion of geography and accelerating economic growth, scientific, technological and innovative development of the Russian Federation through the socio-economic development of promising large centers of economic growth of the Russian Federation—large urban agglomerations and the largest urban agglomerations and balanced spatial development by ensuring the socio-economic development of urban agglomerations, small and medium-sized cities, as well as rural areas in order to reduce the concentration of economic entities and population in metropolitan agglomerations” (bold highlight part of the text that was missing in the original version of the Strategy).

  5. Due to the lack of statistical data on the movement of goods, works, services, capital, and population between cities and rural areas, it is impossible to use a “flow” approach to assessing their connectivity. It seems possible to overcome this limitation by assessing connectivity as the level of time synchronization of the economic dynamics (increasing and decreasing trends) of urban and rural development. A high degree of synchronization in time potentially indicates the formation of a unified and coherent system, as noted in the works [23, 24] etc.

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The article was prepared in accordance with the state assignment for the Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the topic of research work No. FMGZ-2022-0012 “Factors and methods of sustainable socio-economic development of territorial systems in changing conditions of the external and internal environment.”

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Uskova, T.V., Patrakova, S.S. The Balance of Regional Economic Space Along the Urban–Rural Line. Stud. Russ. Econ. Dev. 35, 135–143 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700724010167

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