Abstract:
Migration has huge inluence on demographic structure formation both in donor and
host areas. Internal migration’s effect is the most signiicant. As long as migration
involves mainly young people, their relocation to regional centers accelerates
population ageing in peripheral areas and thus depopulation. Ageing is particularly
fast in the Russian hinterland. There are areas with the median age of population
reaching the edge of 50 years. The cohort research on youth’s migration to the
centers on the last two Russian census data shows that up to 70% of school
graduates leave the regional periphery for good. At the end of the article a method
of estimating the trend in regional center’s migration attractiveness for the youths is
proposed.
