Cities of the Southern Far East in a Web of Relations: Local and Regional Settlement Systems

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	Regionalistica 2025 Volume 12 number 6 pages 138-154

Title of the article	Cities of the Southern Far East in a Web of Relations: Local and Regional Settlement Systems
Pages	138-154
Author	Ukrainsky Vadim Nikolaevich candidate of sciences (economics), research fellow Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-8273-9789
Abstract	Cities and their surrounding territories are interconnected through the diverse functions they perform in relation to each other. One consequence of the evolution of urban systems at various levels in the Southern Far East has been, among other things, the formation of polycentric structures. In particular, two transportation hubs (centers) which responsible for connecting the city with its suburbs via a network of bus routes have emerged in Khabarovsk – the core of the local settlement system. The «deployment» of port functions within a number of settlements has resulted in the formation of a polycentric subregional settlement system in the south of Primorsky Krai.
Code	332.1(912.4)
DOI	10.14530/reg.2025.6.138
Keywords	city, suburb, settlement systems, functional connections, center, polycentrism
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For citation	Ukrainsky V.N. Cities of the Southern Far East in a Web of Relations: Local and Regional Settlement Systems. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2025. Vol. 12. No. 6. Pp. 138–154. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2025.6.138 (In Russian)
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