Socio-Economic and Demographic Analysis of Spatial Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

• Published in: Voprosy statistiki
• Main Authors: M. V. Fomin, V. A. Bezverbny, I. A. Seleznyov, I. M. Schneiderman, T. R. Miriazov, М. В. Фомин, В. А. Безвербный, И. А. Селезнёв, И. М. Шнейдерман, Т. Р. Мирязов
• Other Authors: The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 19-010-00836 А, Исследование проведено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 19-010-00836 А.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Information and publishing center "Statistics of Russia" 2021
• Subjects: социальный сектор; spatial development; statistics; demographic statistics; regional statistics; sample survey; migration; system of settlement; infrastructure system; social sector; пространственное развитие; статистика; демографическая статистика; региональная статистика; выборочное наблюдение; миграция; система расселения; инфраструктурная система; Sakha; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia; Саха; Якути*; Якутия
• Online Access: https://voprstat.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1326; https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2021-28-4-96-106

The article deals with several relevant socio-demographic issues in the largest by territory constituent entity of the Russian Federation – the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), based on Rosstat data and information arrays obtained in the course of sociological study conducted in 2019 and 2020 by the staff of the Department of Geo-Urban Studies and Spatial Demography of the Institute for Demographic Research (IDR FCTAS RAS).The introduction notes the relevance of the study and methodological approaches to the analysis of the problems under review.The frst part of the article describes the general economic and socio-demographic situation in the region. It demonstrates how the industry specialization of Yakutia determines the socio-economic policy in the region. It is noted that the developing mining industry, along with the construction of large infrastructure facilities, requires an influx of labor resources.In the second part of the article, after formulating the concept of sampling within the framework of a sociological survey (a model using key characteristics of the general population, based on the principles of quota-proportional and territorial methods), the social status of the population, its migration moods, attitudes towards labor migrants from abroad are analyzed, as well as the economic situation in general and the dynamics of the development of key enterprises in the region.It is argued that, despite the active industrial development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the existing socio-economic problems in the future may influence the pace of spatial development of the region. First and foremost, it is a problem of migration outflows. Although the demographic indicators at the republic level are high, there is a division of the region's territory into a decreasing periphery and a growing centre. As in most other constituent entities of the Russian Federation, in Yakutia, there are processes of population concentration in the most prospective areas.The authors drew up conclusions and proposals which, in ...