Demographic processes in rural areas of Belarus: geographical structure and spatial dynamics

Antipova, Ekaterina; Fakeyeva, Liudmila

doi:10.2478/v10089-012-0001-9

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“…6) one might notice the dramatic decline of the rural population in Belarus. While some scholars point to the relatively favourable dynamics of rural population in the suburbs (Antipova, Fakeyeva, 2012), the authors' calculations on Belarus suggest the opposite. However, if Belarus is to be compared with the Russian federal districts instead of with Russia, it becomes clear that in the 1990s the rural population dynamics in Belarus was very similar to that of the rural periphery of the Central and North-Western districts.…”

Section: Rural Population Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Population change in the regional centres and internal periphery of the regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus over the period of 1990-2000s

Karachurina

Mkrtchyan

2015

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. The paper looks into the dynamics of the population size of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus after the census of 1989. Regions and cities of these countries were the focus of the research (territorial units level NUTS-3). The analysis addresses the question to what degree the remoteness from the regional centre, i.e. the position in the core-periphery system, influences the dynamics of the population size of the territorial units of the given level. For the analytical purposes the distinction has been made between the regional centres including adjacent suburban areas and internal regional periphery comprising districts and cities. The main indicator employed was the distance between the periphery areas and regional centres.The results of the analysis show that in spite of the depopulation of all three countries and severe transformational crisis, there was a steady growth of the population size in the regional centres, while the periphery areas of the regions continued to lose the population. The mentioned differences are primarily determined by migration flows, since the fertility rates are below the replacement level in all the countries' territories. Population tends to concentrate in the regional centres, which means urbanisation has not been completed yet. While similar patterns of population decline are observed in the periphery areas of Ukraine and Belarus, in Russia the depopulation rates are negatively influenced by the factor of remoteness of a periphery area from the regional centre. All three countries experienced rural population decline everywhere but suburban areas of the regional centres.

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Section: Rural Population Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Population change in the regional centres and internal periphery of the regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus over the period of 1990-2000s

Karachurina

Mkrtchyan

2015

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…A study by Karachurina and Mkrtchyan (2015) covers spatial population change dynamics in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus throughout 1990-2000 at the NUTS-3 territorial unit level. The study finds strong depopulation trends in rural and periphery areas in all three republics confirming Skryzhevska and Karácsonyi (2012) and Antipoval et al (2012). The population growth in regional centers and capital cities was caused by migration, which indicates that urbanization processes had not been completed.…”

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“…The process of urbanization that had started much earlier in the 1950s continued during the period prior to the collapse of the USSR contributing to rural depopulation. Antipoval et al (2012) note an accelerated migration during the 1990s with persisting outmigration from rural areas. The authors emphasize that the negative spatial demographic trends with rural decline, net outmigration, and negative natural population growth that aroused in the 1990s turned into long-lasting trends characterizing the Belarusian geo-demographics.…”

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“…The authors point out the devastating socio-economic effects of the rural population decline. Antipoval et al (2012) did similar research on Belarus to study the spatial patterns of population change using the map-image transformation method. The study emphasizes the trends of the spatial population change in rural areas of Belarus from 1959 to 2009.…”

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“…Studies on Post-Soviet spatial demographics, urbanization, and other related fields are mainly focused geographically on Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine (Antipoval, et al, 2012;Fedorov, 2019;Karachurina & Mkrtchyan, 2015) and conceptually on population change in major cities (Anacker, 2004;Seitz, 2020). Usually, studies in this field consider population change in major urban settlements separately from demographics in rural areas and surrounding territories.…”

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Demographic processes in rural areas of Belarus: geographical structure and spatial dynamics

Cited by 6 publications

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Population change in the regional centres and internal periphery of the regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus over the period of 1990-2000s

Population change in the regional centres and internal periphery of the regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus over the period of 1990-2000s

Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations of Urban System: Case of Kazakhstan From 1979 to 2022

Understanding trajectories of population decline across rural and urban Europe: A sequence analysis

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