CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS OF MIGRATION OF THE POPULATION OF THE USSR

Discusses on the basis of census statistics and poll results the three basic trends of Soviet migration processes (movement to the eastern and northern regions of new development from the country's densely settled regions, mainly central European Russia; constant and sizable rural-to-urban movement; and heavy movement into the country's largest cities and republic and oblast centers), as well as the three main migration problems (stabilization of the rural population of central European Russia; acclimatization of new settlers in the eastern regions; and activization of the native inhabitants of Central Asia). -from Journal summary