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The article discusses some features of the placement and dynamics of the urban population of the republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan from 2000 to 2017. The paper highlights the main factors influencing the pace of development of the urban population in the two economically developed republics of Russia in the early XXI century. The role of the transport factor is revealed and the value of the Volga river with its large tributaries in the change of the urban population in the study area is justified. The study...

This study investigates the rural population distribution in the Republic of Tatarstan. This article considers the rural population and settlements of Tatarstan Republic in terms of development and distribution factors from 1950ies to the present day. The paper analyzes the main factors influencing the placement of rural settlements such as geographic, demographic, natural, transportational, economic and socio-domestic. The authors have examined the rural population migration as well as changes in the rural popula...

The article shows the changes in the population on the present territory of the Republic of Tatarstan from ancient times to the end of the XIX century. The article pays a special attention to the peculiarities of settlement before including the Kazan Khanate to the Russian state. It was at that time when a constant network of settlements began to emerge on the territory of present Tatarstan. The paper investigates the ethnic aspects of the historical and geographical settlement and identifies the main types of dis...