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Major trends for changes in the socioeconomic space of rural Russia

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The paper is devoted to the interpretation of the geographical approach to the study of Russian rural areas; identification of the key factors in their spatial organization at the national, regional, and municipal levels; and a multiscale review of the causes and consequences of change in the rural space in two regions, i.e., Kostroma oblast and Stavropol krai.

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Original Russian Text © T.G. Nefedova, 2012, published Izvestiya RAN. Seriya Geograficheskaya, 2012, No. 3

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Nefedova, T.G. Major trends for changes in the socioeconomic space of rural Russia. Reg. Res. Russ. 2, 41–54 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970512010078

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