title: Russia's disappearing towns: new evidence of urban decline, 1979-1994.
abstract: "A specialist on the urban geography of Russia and the USSR presents findings from important new sources of data that shed additional light on the phenomenon of urban population decline. The analysis focuses on regional patterns of urban decline in the late Soviet period through 1994, and investigates the functional characteristics of towns and cities that are experiencing population decline or even disappearing altogether. Complementing earlier work on the subject by the author, the present research extends the analysis to include all officially designated urban places in Russia."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012426:Russia; D014586:USSR; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Europe; Europe; Geographic Factors; Historical Survey; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Decrease; Population Dynamics; Russia; Urban Population; Ussr