Drawing of the Russian population into large cities and their suburbs

The scale of population flow to large cities and their suburbs in Russia in 2011-2020. is estimated at 3.5-5.5 million people, because of migration these territories have significantly increased their population during this period. During the calculations, individual depersonalized data were used, which made it possible, based on the author's methodology, to identify centers (large cities of various sizes and their suburbs) and peripheral territories and analyze migration between them. The detail of the data makes it possible to delimit the flow to large cities from settlements of different sizes in peripheral territories, as well as to state the redistribution of the population among centers of different sizes in favor of the largest ones. The influx of the population to centers of different sizes, in turn, has specifics: residents of large settlements in the periphery move to the largest agglomerations. The smaller the center, the more its migration increase is provided by residents of small settlements. Cities with less than 250 thousand inhabitants and their suburbs did not have a migration increase in population, because the influx from the periphery could not compensate for their migration loss into larger centers. All calculations were made taking into account the distorting influence of auto return on the scale of population flow.