Territorial distribution of investments in Russian cities in 2015-2018
This article is devoted to analysis of the territorial investment distribution in Russian Federation cities in depending on population and economics-geographical factors. The main aim is gives raised researchers influence to the regional heterogeneity of investments distribution in cities and investment aspects of big cities development. Herewith, the shortage of works, devoted to investment situation in cities with population less 100 thousand, is remained. The work conclusions are based on the analysis of the investment distributions to the main capital for 1066 Russian Federation cities over the period from 2015 to 2018 years. Based on this analysis, conclusions are made about hard investment territorial distribution dependence from the regional situation. The cities influence to the investment situation firstly manifests in the Moscow and the St. Petersburg agglomerations. But even other cities over a million people mostly depends on its regional economic. It was found, that investment distribution dependence from the city’s population has a nonlinear character. The distortions appear because of small oil-gas cities and the large and largest cities underinvestments. The polarization is especially strong among the small towns: 2% of all the settlement with population less than 50% concentrates almost quarter of investments for this cities group. It was found, that the investment activity for most of the cities doesn’t bring comparable results for cities economics and budget.