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Within the architectonics of the territorial organization of modern Russian society, the centers of federal subjects, or regional metropolises (innovation establishing itself more firmly in the Russian terminological practice [1–5]) occupy special dominant place. In the urbanized network constructed by them, Moscow and St. Petersburg are certainly of great significance; however, if we also consider cities of federal importance (that partially perform and region-making functions), currently, in the territory of Russia, there are 84 “bunches” of regional political power and economic1 influence that concentrate 50.3% of the country’s urban population. All of them are different: from miniature Magas in Ingushetia with a population of 2500 to the Moscow megametropolis containing (with suburbs) up to 18 mln people; at the same time, only 34 regional metropolises account for more than 500000 inhabitants (i.e., they may be characterized as more or less large-scale) and only 18 among them are considered to be city agglomerations with a population of more than a million. Not all of them are successful and have adequately fulfilled possibilities of postindustrial development and metropolization.
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Original Russian Text © A.G. Druzhinin, 2013, published in Regional’nye Issledovaniya, 2013, No. 2, pp. 25–32.
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Druzhinin, A.G. Spatial possibilities and barriers of the postindustrial development of a regional metropolis (the Case Study of Rostov-on-Don). Reg. Res. Russ. 3, 386–391 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970513040035
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