Hierarchy of Russian spaces or new inequality configurations
The speed of change in the capitals, large industrial cities is increasing faster than in the provinces, leading to the heterogeneity of a formally unified space. The core-periphery model, despite all conditionality, reproducing spatial and socio-cultural differentiation, contributes to a better understanding of the faults and inequalities of Russian society. This model is extrapolated to the understanding of the problem of using the space of Russia as one of the ways, if not to resolve, but to mitigate the social crisis caused by a whole complex of factors of social development.