MODERN GEODEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN PERIPHERAL RURAL AREAS IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA

Abstract

The demographic situation in Russia, despite the measures taken, largely retains negative. Low fertility combined with high mortality led to the depopulation effect resulting in natural population decline in many regions of the country, which can not affect the process of their socio-economic development. A real threat due to the decreasing population of working age and the reduction of labour potential. A significant role in this process is played and migration processes leading to the outflow of employable population from stagnating areas. In the article the peculiarities of the development of the geodemographic situation in the peripheral rural regions of Southern European Russia, is analyzed the dynamics of the population, the characteristic of natural reproduction of the population, described the migration process and also identifies the relationship of gender, age and ethnic population structure with demographic processes. A special type of geographic and demographic situations prevailing in the rural periphery of Southern European Russia.