Moscow and St. Petersburg expectedly took first place in the ranking of the attractiveness of Russian cities, which unveiled the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia.
Study to assess the quality of the urban living environment, published on the official website of the department, was carried out in 2012-2013 in 164 cities of Russia and the Russian Union of Engineers, State Construction Committee, the CPS and the Moscow State University. MV University. As the result was made general attractiveness rating based on 13 indices reflecting the main directions in the evaluation of the quality of urban living environment.
The criteria for assessing the attractiveness of cities have become the speaker of the population, its demographic characteristics, social dimensions of society and the well-being of citizens, social infrastructure, the economy of the city, housing development, housing affordability, innovation activity, transport infrastructure, physical infrastructure, human resources, natural and ecological situation.
Just list includes 50 cities. The rankings have taken the city, with leading positions in most areas (the exception is the index of housing affordability). These are cities with a population of one million or more people. In the first place, is to be expected, turned out to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In the third place ranking — Novosibirsk, which refers to the centers of innovative development, as well as Ekaterinburg (4th place), Rostov-on-Don (5) and Voronezh (8).
Kazan and Krasnodar took the 6 th and 7 th, respectively. Completing the top ten of Ufa (9th), and Krasnoyarsk.
Eleventh place in the overall ranking took Chelyabinsk.
The twelfth and thirteenth — Omsk and Tomsk. Volgograd was the fourteenth and fifteenth — Far East Vladivostok.