Пространственная структура демографического развития белорусско-российского приграничного региона

Abstract

The article is devoted to the economic and geographical analysis of the demographic development of the Belarusian-Russian border region (for example districts of the Belarusian side of the border). The trends of population dynamics, natural movement and migration of the population for 1989–2009 years for the districts of the three spatial orders: 1) immediately adjacent to the state border; 2) in the zone of the regional center influence; 3) peripheral by the economic and geographical position are analyzes in the article. The typology of Belarusian border regions according to the factors of the demographic balance forming is developed in the article. It is found that demographic space of the Belarusian-Russian border is heterogeneous, has center-peripheral properties with the peripheral priority and characterized by: 1) a regressive population dynamics based on the prevalence of natural population decrease over the migration outflow, 2) the most favorable parameters of demographic development of the border areas in the zone of the regional center influence.