The process of transportation of space of modern Russia: polarization aspect
The article deals with the process of transformation of Russian post - Soviet space. The transition to a market economy has caused signicant changes in the economy and society, inuencing the spatial organization of production and social development. This was the result transformation processes. Among them should be allocated basic: polarization; the growing importance of the region's administrative center; towards the post-industrial society; formation of regional markets; geographic-location rent; different speed integration of regions into the global economic system; spatial compression (different species). The relevance of the study is to analyze the manifestations, poured out in the formation of depressed areas and growth centers. Such gradients development characteristic for the Soviet period, in a market economy signicantly deteriorated due to a signicant differentiation of the economic and social spaces that highlight the socio - economic (human) geography of the need to study this process, and its impact on all regional levels. Investigation ongoing transformation of the space of the country is impossible without the analysis of one of the most important transformation processes - polarization. The article deals with its denition, characteristics and manifestation. For the analysis of the latter in the Russian scale it was generally used a number of indicators that characterize the settlement and economic use of space. The analysis of the main trends in the selected indicators, indicating the country's place in the space of polarization processes. The conclusion about the similarity of the current pattern of economic inequality in Russia with the countries of catch - up development, to further overlap specic features of Russia.