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Discusses regional patterns and trends in crude birth, death, and natural increase rates in Russia and USSR until the period 1989. Presentation of individual rates for period of time; Basis of study in relation to its comparable regional framework; Discussion of sources and collection of data; Nature of problem of data reliability; Conclusive results relating to crude birth, death, and natural increase rates.

Presents an update on the declining town trends in Russia for the period 1989-1993 based on the data from the last census of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and urban population estimates of the Russian Federation in 1993. Number, trends and regional distribution patterns of the declining towns; Functional and size characteristics.

Updates an earlier study in `Soviet Geography' journal in 1980, focused on towns with declining population during the 1959-1970 period, by showing that further declines occurred during the 1970-1989 period. Covered towns, methodology and limitations of study; Geographical aspects, economic functions and size specifications of towns; 30-year perspective of decline.

The article presents geographical patterns of the Jewish population in the Pale of Settlement of late 19th Century Russia. One of the most significant minority groups of the Russian Empire were the Jews, who numbered approximately five million people around the turn of the century, and accounted for nearly 46% of the Jewish population of the world. One of the major factors which gave rise to the appreciable Jewish immigration in the empire was the anti-Jewish policies imposed by the tsarist government during the century. This ant-Jewish policies accounts for the major geographic manifestation in the establishment of the Jewish Pale of Settle.

Focuses on a study which examined the internal population shifts within metropolitan areas in Russia and the former Soviet Union (FSU) over the period 1897-1997, with emphasis on the 1970 to 1997 period. Definition of metropolitan areas; Comparison of metropolitan processes to those in other countries; Data collected on the study; Increase in the number of metropolitan areas in the FSU and Russia; In-depth look at the study.

Investigates the most rapidly growing towns and cities and additional towns formed within the Russian Federation from 1989 to 1996. Information on urban growth in the former Soviet Union; Definition of rapidly growing towns; Reference to the number of rapidly growing towns between 1989 and 1996; Details on the concentration of population.

Investigates secret closed towns in Russia. Focus of study on about 40 official closed administrative-territorial formations; Consideration of their status as official urban centers; Examination of the geographical patterns of location of the closed towns.

Analyzes regional patterns of urban population decline in the late Soviet period through 1994. Functional characteristics of towns and cities; Number and geographic patterns of urban decline; Economic functions and settlement size.