title: Shifts in the distribution of rural population in the non-Chernozem zone of the RSFSR.
abstract: "Rural population change within the Non-Chernozem zone of the RSFRS [Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic] is examined over the period 1959-79 at several levels of analysis:  the Non-Chernozem zone as a whole, its major economic regions, individual oblasts, individual rayons and individual farms and rural places.  The overriding tendency at all levels of analysis has been the increasing spatial concentration of rural population."  The authors observe that "this concentration assumes a variety of forms, from the concentration of rural population in the suburban zones of large cities and the immediate surroundings of rayon seats to a decline in the number of rural places (from 180,000 in 1959 to 118,000 in 1979) and the growth of local centers against a general background of rural population decline.  The authors hint that the observed tendency is a positive development, in keeping with the policy of converting Soviet agriculture to a more intensive path of development."
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Igudina
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Ioffe
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011156:Population Density; D012424:Rural Population; D012939:Social Planning; D013383:Suburban Population; D014586:USSR; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Agricultural Development; Agriculture; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Development Planning; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Macroeconomic Factors; Nonmetropolitan Population; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Density--changes; Rural Development; Rural Population; Rural Spatial Distribution--changes; Spatial Distribution; Suburbanization; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization; Ussr