Constant migration of population in Russian regions

The article discusses methodical issues of the analysis of the population migration in the post-Soviet Russia. It shows the specifics of using efficiency rates of the external to regions, interregional and international migratory relations. Regions of Russia are grouped by efficiency of the migration relations over 1993-2013. All subjects of the Russian Federation can be divided into 4 groups according to the total rate of efficiency of the external to regions migration: main migration recipients, local migration recipients, main migration donors, receiving-giving regions. The main migration recipients in Russia are the regions, which in the period under review had positive total balance of migration, positive total interregional migration balance and most part of separate interregional migration balance. Local migration recipients («local level») are the regions with a positive migration balance in population exchange with all adjoining regions in addition to the main recipient migration. The main migration donors of Russia are the regions losing population as a result the interregional migration with the majority of other regions. 23 regions, which are the main migration donors of Russia, can be divided into three groups: republics of the North Caucasus (plus Kalmykia); regions of Siberia and the Far East; regions of the European North (plus Kirov oblast).