Social polarization and ethnic segregation in Moscow
Ethnic minority ; Ethnic segregation ; European part of Russia ; Migration ; Moscow ; Nationality ; Polarization ; Social indicators ; Spatial distribution ; Town ; Urban society
The evolving housing market in Moscow: indicators of housing reform
Economic reform ; European part of Russia ; Finance ; Habitability ; Housing ; Housing cost ; Housing market ; Housing policy ; Legislation ; Moscow ; Privatisation ; Residential mobility ; Urban construction
The paper examines the results of the housing policy reforms in terms of their effects on private ownership, residential mobility, housing conditions and housing affordability. Longitudinal data on these four characteristics of the Moscow housing
Map-making to 1900: an historical glossary of cartographic innovations and their diffusion. Preliminary study, presented on the occasion of the Eight International Conference on Cartography, Moscow, USSR, 3-10 August 1976
The electoral geographies of a polarizing city : Moscow, 1993-1996
Economic restructuring ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Political geography ; Political reform ; Social change ; Spatial autocorrelation ; Urban area
Temperature-induced excess mortality in Moscow, Russia
Bioclimatology ; Climate optimum ; European part of Russia ; Health ; Human bioclimatology ; Man-environment relations ; Mortality ; Moscow ; Temperature
Moscow as an emergent world city : international links, business developments, and the entrepreneurial city
Business district ; Entrepreneurship ; European part of Russia ; International economy ; Moscow ; Telecommunications ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban change ; World city ; Years 1990-99
European part of Russia ; Industrial location ; Location choice ; Moscow ; Software ; Technology transfer
Global outsourcing of software development has created new agglomerations of offshore software companies in developing and transitional countries. The article analyses the evolution, structure, and the internal and external linkages of the Moscow
agglomeration. Finally, pros and cons of the development path taken by Moscow are assessed. - (IFL)
Soil formation in Greyzems in Moscow district : micromorphology, chemistry, clay mineralogy and particle size distribution
Clay mineral ; European part of Russia ; Forest soil ; Geochemistry ; Grain size distribution ; Micromorphology ; Moscow ; Oblast ; Pedogenesis ; Soil properties ; Taxonomy
, and developed on loess-like mantle loams of Late Weichselian (Valday) age in the northern forest-steppe zone of the East European plain (Middle Russian Upland) were described and sampled near Puschino, some 100 km south of Moscow. Micromorphology, particle size
Selected urban population characteristics of Moscow
Demographic change ; Demographic structure ; Demography ; Migration ; Moscow ; National minority ; Russia ; Urban migration ; Urban population
L'A. analyse les caractéristiques de la population de Moscow entre 1979 et 1989, spécialement en ce qui concerne la nationalité, l'âge, le sexe, l'instruction et leurs corrélations. Il étudie la dynamique de la population des Russes, des Ukrainiens
Changing housing markets in Russian cities. Case study of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan
Comparative study ; European part of Russia ; Habitat ; Land ; Moscow ; Price ; Real estate market ; Saint Petersburg ; Urban area ; Urban geography
. The most dynamic markets with peak prices are found in metropolitan areas with a population of 1 million or more. Two cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, provide a special case as they differ from other big Russian cities such as Kazan in Tartastan in price
History of the cultural layer in Moscow and accumulation of anthropogenic substances in it
Archaeology ; European part of Russia ; Geochemistry ; Human impact ; Moscow ; Palaeo-environment ; Pedogenesis ; Soil ; Soil pollution ; Town ; Waste
Urban soils in the central part of Moscow consist of a thick layer of municipal waste (the cultural layer). Its thickness varies from 2 to 5 m and can reach 20 m in depressions. It has been affected by pedogenic processes and also contains