Features of rural migration in Russia (2000s)

The article is devoted to an important scientific problem, which historians are just beginning to study in this chronological framework. The labor character of rural migration is shown, since it is based on economic factors (a general shortage of jobs in rural areas and a significantly lower wage level than in the city). The main directions of the interregional movement of rural migrants are traced; two main groups are identified among them - the territories of the largest migrant arrivals; and donor regions, which were forced to give a significant part of their villagers to other regions during the migration exchange. It is shown that at this stage migration from rural areas was no longer crucial for the overall reduction of the rural population. Sources. It is based on: the All-Russian Population censuses of 2002 and 2010, data from published demographic statistical collections, as well as departmental materials from the Institute of Agricultural Economics obtained during annual monitoring of the social and labor sphere of the village, etc. This array of sources provided the study with the necessary and representative information about the socio-economic development of the village and the migration movements of its population. Relevance. The problem of migration development from the modern Russian countryside does not lose its importance, given the growing discrepancy between the constant decline of the rural population and the grandiose scale of its main task - reliable food supply to the country. Research methods. Chronological, historical-comparative and statistical methods were used.