megacities are settlements with a population of citizens more than one million people around the world of 326 (50 of which are in China).The Russian Federation is 1 100 cities, 15 of them live more than one million inhabitants.This list is at the end of 2012 added to Voronezh.And the very first megacities of Russia - it is St. Petersburg and Moscow.Such status they had in the late 19th century, which was the result of the urbanization of the country after the abolition of serfdom, the development of industry, trade and transport.
megacities in Russia are the main places of attraction and concentration of labor, human, cultural, industrial, economic resources and centers of economic and social development of the region or neighboring regions.Some of them (and Moscow are close to the state border) provide a good opportunity for employment and residence for Asia and the former Soviet Union.The significance of these communities depends not only on population but also on other factors: the level of income of residents, cultural and economic specifics of neighboring regions, for which the million-plus cities are centers of higher education, culture, transport, trade, logistics and so on.n.
In the USSR, the vast city had the privilege: the right to build the subway, the right to have other resources and public goods.But the possibility and order of their receipt depended not only on standards of the State Planning Commission, but also on the regional heads of informal relations with the central government.After the collapse of the Union of megacities also stand out especially the attitude of the government - the State program of subway construction, promote the development of road infrastructure and other federal projects.It is the largest market for neighboring territories, promote inflow of investments related to the production of consumer goods, services and trade.Therefore, dealer, operator, service centers, offices and bank branches, points of sale retailers appeared primarily in major cities.
Today, only Moscow (12 million. Inhabitants) and Saint Petersburg (5 million. Inhabitants) is a city-multimillionaires.The rest of the thirteen largest cities has a population of less than two million people.The greatest accumulation of one million located in the Volga region and Siberia.List of megacities by federal district looks like:
- PFD - Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Volgograd, Ufa, Perm;
- SFD - Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk;
- RPO - Chelyabinsk, Ekaterinburg;
- Southern Federal District - Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don;
- CFA - Voronezh, Moscow;
- SZFO- St. Petersburg;
- SKFO - 0;
- DFO - 0.
also highlights submillionery city with a population of 700 thousand. People.up to 1 mln. people.- Saratov, Krasnodar and Tolyatti.In Russia there are 22 agglomerations (cluster of settlements), which are home to over a million people.In addition to the major 15 cities here include the following territorial entities: Krasnodar, Saratov, Novokuznetsk, Tula, Novomoskovsk, Vladivostok, Naberezhnye Chelny, Irkutsk.Some experts referred to the vast metropolitan area in the Bryansk, Yaroslavl, Izhevsk.
