А Г Махрова
Biographic Data
| ID | 6753701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | А Г Махрова |
| GIVEN NAMES | А Г |
| FAMILY NAME | Махрова |
| SIGNATURE | МАХРОВА А Г |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4432-1095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quantifying contributions of geographical features to urban GDP outputs via interpretable machine learning
Second-Order Urban Agglomerations in the Moscow Region
In this article, based on data from mobile operators on the current flows of labor commuters, a delimitation of second-order urban agglomerations in the Moscow region was carried out using a graph-analytical approach that has not previously been used to study settlement systems. The authors’ methodology included the construction of a series of graphs and their processing using the Leiden clustering algorithm (with and without taking into account …
Trends in Urban Studies in Russia
Since 2022, the journal Regional Research of Russia publishes special thematic issues devoted to current topics of social geography, regional economics and sociology. The presented issue is the fourth in a row and the sixth if we also count two issues with extensive special sections, one of which was devoted to the problems of development of the Siberian macroregion, the other—to climate policy in Russia. The articles in this issue reflect the re…
Foreign Migrants in the Moscow Agglomeration
Using mobile network operator data, the study analyzes the modern ethnic landscape of the Moscow agglomeration formed by foreign migrants. Their total number and monthly dynamics from October 2021 to October 2022 were analyzed. Foreigners’ main areas of residence were identified, the ethnic diversity of municipalities was assessed, and the main types of settlement pattern of national-ethnic communities were identified. The study showed that the t…
Post-Soviet Trajectories of Russian Shrinking Cities
The objective of the article is to assess the scale and dynamics of shrinkage of cities in Russia and its regions in the post-Soviet period. Urban shrinkage analysis, based on the average annual index of population decrease according to population censuses, showed that these processes (at least during one of the intercensal periods) in total covered more than half of Russian cities. At the same time, in less than a third of centers, the average a…
The Latest History of the Development of Kazakhstan’s Urban Agglomerations
The article studies the current stage of development of Kazakhstan’s agglomerations, the incentivized formation of which has become a state policy priority. Due to the lack of criteria, the boundaries of potential agglomerations are determined by 1.5-h isochrons of transport accessibility around cities with populations of 100 000 or more. Of these cities, eight centers were selected, based on a modified development coefficient that takes into acc…
Moscow Oblast
The article, written for the anniversary of G.M. Lappo, is dedicated to Moscow oblast as one of his key regions. The influence of Moscow on the territory of the oblast is considered, including according to cellular operator data. The emphasis is on the change in territorial structures of Moscow oblast based on a multiscale approach and detailed statistical data. It is shown that in the post-Soviet period, with the development of high-speed transp…
Temporary Mobility and Population Pulsations in Space of Post-Soviet Russia
The paper summarizes recent studies by Russian researchers on various types of temporary mobility and related population pulsations. It is shown that the practice of their study in Russia is in line with the key areas of research on the spatiotemporal population dynamics currently developing abroad. The methodology of work commuting studies is enriched, the first research studies on the event-related mobilities tend to appear. Forms of mobility s…
The Year of Covid
This article is devoted to the study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the processes of sub- and de-urbanization in Russia and the specifics of the return and seasonal dacha mobility of urban population. The features of the mass departure of citizens, especially Muscovites and city dwellers of Moscow oblast, to dachas in 2020 are considered. The introduction of the restrictions and the possibilities of distant work and education contribut…
Official and “Real” Cities
This article considers methodological approaches to delimitation of cities and towns and criteria of such delimitation in the case of a large urban agglomeration based on the example of the Moscow metropolitan area. It is shown that despite some level of imprecision, mobile network operator data is a useful tool for identifying “real” cities and towns. The study uses a 500 × 500 m cell as a basic territorial unit, which helps to delineate the bor…
The Moscow Capital Region
This article is devoted to Moscow oblast and its interaction with Moscow. The latter largely explains the increased level of investment and retail turnover, and, most importantly, the attractiveness for the population. The share of Moscow oblast in the population and economy of the country is increasing against the background of depopulation of other regions of Central Russia. The uneven distribution of the population within Moscow oblast, which …
The Seasonal Dacha Settlement Pattern as an Indicator of Spatial Development Contrasts
The article employs a number of seasonal settlement pattern indicators to reveal the degree of territorial contrast in the center of Russia at the level of municipalities in two cross sections. The first cross section passes from St. Petersburg along a highway through Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow oblasts and Moscow to the southern border of Tula Oblast. The second cross section runs from the southern border of Kaluga Oblast through Moscow an…
Moscow Dachas
The article presents the results of an analysis of the distribution and nature of the use of second suburban housing (second homes) in the Moscow capital region using an indicative approach based on data from mobile network operators. The research methodology included a multiscale analysis of fluctuations in the nighttime population in several marker time slices, which made it possible to indirectly estimate the usage scale of year-round and seas…
Integrated Socioeconomic Development Index for Russian Cities
The article presents a methodology and results of calculating the integral multicomponent index of socioeconomic development of cities in the Russian Federation. The index is constructed from four key groups of urban development indicators: level of economic development, human development, provision of social infrastructure, and quality of the urban environment. Direct and calculated indicators from municipal, regional, and departmental statistic…
Methodological Approaches to the Delimitation of the Boundaries of the Moscow Agglomeration Based on Data from Mobile Network Operators
The article highlights the boundaries of the Moscow agglomeration and analyzes its spatial structure using approaches involving the concept of time geography. The study is based on a methodology for determining functional urban areas of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); mobile operators data on the localization of network users are applied. The analysis showed the impossibility of using the OECD methodology without…
Largest Urban Agglomerations and Forms of Settlement Pattern at the Supra-Agglomeration Level in Russia
The paper analyzes the development trends of Russia’s largest urban agglomerations following the last census, in the period 2010–2018. According to the methodology, based on the functional and settlement pattern approach and the isochrons of transport accessibility of agglomeration cores, the boundaries were delimited and the population dynamics and development coefficient of Russia’s 36 largest urban agglomerations (with cores in cities or in a …
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
Trends in the Development of the New Moscow Sector of the Metropolitan Agglomeration
The article concerns the development of the spatial structure of the Moscow agglomeration in the first years of implementing plans for the development of New Moscow in comparison with Moscow with the old borders and the entire Moscow agglomeration. A case study of the southwestern sector of the agglomeration is used to analyze the transformation of the central–peripheral self-organization of the given territory, which lost its barrier in the form…
Work commuting of the population in the Moscow agglomeration
The paper estimates the scales and spatial structure of work commuting in the Moscow agglomeration using mobile operators data about network user locations and considers the attractiveness of the Moscow labor market and local centers, as well as seasonal fluctuations in commuting flows. The attempt of using mobile operator data on movements of mobile phone users has shown good applicability of this tool for labor commuting studies both as an inde…
Seasonal pulsation of settlement pattern in the Moscow agglomeration under the influence of dacha and work commuting
This paper analyzes the domestic and foreign experience in accounting of dacha and work commuting as well as methodological approaches to their use to assess the number of dacha residents and commuters in the Moscow agglomeration. The pulsation of the Moscow and Moscow oblast populations in different seasons is considered, and changes in the forms of population mobility during dacha and work commuting are revealed. Due to the lack of information …
The specifics and spatial structure of circular migration in Russia
This article aims at distinguishing recurrent population movements within the territory of the Russian Federation between urban localities of different sizes and rural areas in connection to the processes of urbanization, suburbanization, and de-urbanization. Incomplete urbanization and the strong polarization of socio-economic space in Russia have resulted in two powerful contradictory population flows: centrifugal seasonal sub- and de-urbanizat…
Cities and social processes
Some categories used in Russian geography to analyze spatial aspects of social processes in cities are considered. The possibility to interpret the same terms differently is shown depending on scientific approaches and the investigation scopes applied. This paper is part of a topical collection of five articles published in this issue of the journal under the rubric “Urban Geography” and dedicated to key terms and notions used in urban studies in…
The role of organized cottage settlements in suburbanization processes in post-Soviet Russia
The patterns of the establishment of organized cottage settlements in suburban areas around Russia’s major cities are described, particularly the evolution of the types and sizes of organized cottage settlements, as well as shifts in their spatial organization and people’s lifestyles. A special emphasis is placed on the analysis of the Moscow region, where cottage suburbs are most widespread; specific aspects of cottage settlements in New Moscow …
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
Moscow agglomeration and “New Moscow”
The paper is focused on the development of the city of Moscow and its close and distant suburbs, as well as on the accompanying problems related to the specificity of Russia’s urbanization. A complex hierarchy of urban spatial structures formed around the nation’s capital was distinguished, mapped, and analyzed. Both the former and today’s urban policies are discussed in the paper in view of the latest dramatic extension of Moscow’s boundaries an…
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
Moscow agglomeration and “New Moscow”
The paper is focused on the development of the city of Moscow and its close and distant suburbs, as well as on the accompanying problems related to the specificity of Russia’s urbanization. A complex hierarchy of urban spatial structures formed around the nation’s capital was distinguished, mapped, and analyzed. Both the former and today’s urban policies are discussed in the paper in view of the latest dramatic extension of Moscow’s boundaries an…
Cities and social processes
Some categories used in Russian geography to analyze spatial aspects of social processes in cities are considered. The possibility to interpret the same terms differently is shown depending on scientific approaches and the investigation scopes applied. This paper is part of a topical collection of five articles published in this issue of the journal under the rubric “Urban Geography” and dedicated to key terms and notions used in urban studies in…
The role of organized cottage settlements in suburbanization processes in post-Soviet Russia
The patterns of the establishment of organized cottage settlements in suburban areas around Russia’s major cities are described, particularly the evolution of the types and sizes of organized cottage settlements, as well as shifts in their spatial organization and people’s lifestyles. A special emphasis is placed on the analysis of the Moscow region, where cottage suburbs are most widespread; specific aspects of cottage settlements in New Moscow …
The Hybrid Spatialities of Transition
This paper conceptualises post-socialist urban economic geographies through the notion of hybrid spatialities that emerge from the mutual embeddedness of neoliberalism and socialist legacies. While the dismantling of state socialism was a massive moment towards the exacerbation of uneven development, ironically it is the socialist-era spatial legacy that has become the single major differentiating factor for the economic status of cities. This su…
Seasonal pulsation of settlement pattern in the Moscow agglomeration under the influence of dacha and work commuting
This paper analyzes the domestic and foreign experience in accounting of dacha and work commuting as well as methodological approaches to their use to assess the number of dacha residents and commuters in the Moscow agglomeration. The pulsation of the Moscow and Moscow oblast populations in different seasons is considered, and changes in the forms of population mobility during dacha and work commuting are revealed. Due to the lack of information …
The specifics and spatial structure of circular migration in Russia
This article aims at distinguishing recurrent population movements within the territory of the Russian Federation between urban localities of different sizes and rural areas in connection to the processes of urbanization, suburbanization, and de-urbanization. Incomplete urbanization and the strong polarization of socio-economic space in Russia have resulted in two powerful contradictory population flows: centrifugal seasonal sub- and de-urbanizat…
Work commuting of the population in the Moscow agglomeration
The paper estimates the scales and spatial structure of work commuting in the Moscow agglomeration using mobile operators data about network user locations and considers the attractiveness of the Moscow labor market and local centers, as well as seasonal fluctuations in commuting flows. The attempt of using mobile operator data on movements of mobile phone users has shown good applicability of this tool for labor commuting studies both as an inde…
Trends in the Development of the New Moscow Sector of the Metropolitan Agglomeration
The article concerns the development of the spatial structure of the Moscow agglomeration in the first years of implementing plans for the development of New Moscow in comparison with Moscow with the old borders and the entire Moscow agglomeration. A case study of the southwestern sector of the agglomeration is used to analyze the transformation of the central–peripheral self-organization of the given territory, which lost its barrier in the form…
Largest Urban Agglomerations and Forms of Settlement Pattern at the Supra-Agglomeration Level in Russia
The paper analyzes the development trends of Russia’s largest urban agglomerations following the last census, in the period 2010–2018. According to the methodology, based on the functional and settlement pattern approach and the isochrons of transport accessibility of agglomeration cores, the boundaries were delimited and the population dynamics and development coefficient of Russia’s 36 largest urban agglomerations (with cores in cities or in a …
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
Methodological Approaches to the Delimitation of the Boundaries of the Moscow Agglomeration Based on Data from Mobile Network Operators
The article highlights the boundaries of the Moscow agglomeration and analyzes its spatial structure using approaches involving the concept of time geography. The study is based on a methodology for determining functional urban areas of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); mobile operators data on the localization of network users are applied. The analysis showed the impossibility of using the OECD methodology without…
The Seasonal Dacha Settlement Pattern as an Indicator of Spatial Development Contrasts
The article employs a number of seasonal settlement pattern indicators to reveal the degree of territorial contrast in the center of Russia at the level of municipalities in two cross sections. The first cross section passes from St. Petersburg along a highway through Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver, Moscow oblasts and Moscow to the southern border of Tula Oblast. The second cross section runs from the southern border of Kaluga Oblast through Moscow an…
Moscow Dachas
The article presents the results of an analysis of the distribution and nature of the use of second suburban housing (second homes) in the Moscow capital region using an indicative approach based on data from mobile network operators. The research methodology included a multiscale analysis of fluctuations in the nighttime population in several marker time slices, which made it possible to indirectly estimate the usage scale of year-round and seas…
Integrated Socioeconomic Development Index for Russian Cities
The article presents a methodology and results of calculating the integral multicomponent index of socioeconomic development of cities in the Russian Federation. The index is constructed from four key groups of urban development indicators: level of economic development, human development, provision of social infrastructure, and quality of the urban environment. Direct and calculated indicators from municipal, regional, and departmental statistic…
Temporary Mobility and Population Pulsations in Space of Post-Soviet Russia
The paper summarizes recent studies by Russian researchers on various types of temporary mobility and related population pulsations. It is shown that the practice of their study in Russia is in line with the key areas of research on the spatiotemporal population dynamics currently developing abroad. The methodology of work commuting studies is enriched, the first research studies on the event-related mobilities tend to appear. Forms of mobility s…
The Year of Covid
This article is devoted to the study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the processes of sub- and de-urbanization in Russia and the specifics of the return and seasonal dacha mobility of urban population. The features of the mass departure of citizens, especially Muscovites and city dwellers of Moscow oblast, to dachas in 2020 are considered. The introduction of the restrictions and the possibilities of distant work and education contribut…
Official and “Real” Cities
This article considers methodological approaches to delimitation of cities and towns and criteria of such delimitation in the case of a large urban agglomeration based on the example of the Moscow metropolitan area. It is shown that despite some level of imprecision, mobile network operator data is a useful tool for identifying “real” cities and towns. The study uses a 500 × 500 m cell as a basic territorial unit, which helps to delineate the bor…
The Moscow Capital Region
This article is devoted to Moscow oblast and its interaction with Moscow. The latter largely explains the increased level of investment and retail turnover, and, most importantly, the attractiveness for the population. The share of Moscow oblast in the population and economy of the country is increasing against the background of depopulation of other regions of Central Russia. The uneven distribution of the population within Moscow oblast, which …
Post-Soviet Trajectories of Russian Shrinking Cities
The objective of the article is to assess the scale and dynamics of shrinkage of cities in Russia and its regions in the post-Soviet period. Urban shrinkage analysis, based on the average annual index of population decrease according to population censuses, showed that these processes (at least during one of the intercensal periods) in total covered more than half of Russian cities. At the same time, in less than a third of centers, the average a…
The Latest History of the Development of Kazakhstan’s Urban Agglomerations
The article studies the current stage of development of Kazakhstan’s agglomerations, the incentivized formation of which has become a state policy priority. Due to the lack of criteria, the boundaries of potential agglomerations are determined by 1.5-h isochrons of transport accessibility around cities with populations of 100 000 or more. Of these cities, eight centers were selected, based on a modified development coefficient that takes into acc…
Moscow Oblast
The article, written for the anniversary of G.M. Lappo, is dedicated to Moscow oblast as one of his key regions. The influence of Moscow on the territory of the oblast is considered, including according to cellular operator data. The emphasis is on the change in territorial structures of Moscow oblast based on a multiscale approach and detailed statistical data. It is shown that in the post-Soviet period, with the development of high-speed transp…
Second-Order Urban Agglomerations in the Moscow Region
In this article, based on data from mobile operators on the current flows of labor commuters, a delimitation of second-order urban agglomerations in the Moscow region was carried out using a graph-analytical approach that has not previously been used to study settlement systems. The authors’ methodology included the construction of a series of graphs and their processing using the Leiden clustering algorithm (with and without taking into account …
Trends in Urban Studies in Russia
Since 2022, the journal Regional Research of Russia publishes special thematic issues devoted to current topics of social geography, regional economics and sociology. The presented issue is the fourth in a row and the sixth if we also count two issues with extensive special sections, one of which was devoted to the problems of development of the Siberian macroregion, the other—to climate policy in Russia. The articles in this issue reflect the re…
Foreign Migrants in the Moscow Agglomeration
Using mobile network operator data, the study analyzes the modern ethnic landscape of the Moscow agglomeration formed by foreign migrants. Their total number and monthly dynamics from October 2021 to October 2022 were analyzed. Foreigners’ main areas of residence were identified, the ethnic diversity of municipalities was assessed, and the main types of settlement pattern of national-ethnic communities were identified. The study showed that the t…
Quantifying contributions of geographical features to urban GDP outputs via interpretable machine learning
Economic geography (23 works) · Geography (23 works) · Economics (22 works) · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends (21 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (16 works) · Population (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works)