Highlighting the fact of migration from small towns to big cities the expert community ignores that the population reduction in small towns is connected with the cease of in floods from the country. To improve the situation the basic
guideline of post-industrial development must become the diversification and
modernization of production, engineering and social infrastructure of small towns and countryside.
Keywords
Russia in the 21st century, rural development, small towns, inner migration, agriculture, rural households, demographic trends, demographic policy.
