150,000

Russians move to European Russia every year.

This information comes from ‘Migration in Russia: Flows and Centres of Attraction’, an article published by Nikita Mkrtchyan and Lilia Karachurina, two instructors at the HSE’s Institute of Demography.

Mkrtchyan and Karachurina believe that a significant westward population flow from Siberia and the Far East has taken place over the last 20 years. They note, however, that in this new decade the largest population flow is coming not from Siberia and the Far East, but from the Volga region and the Northern Caucasus.