факторы роста численности населения городов, пространственно зависимые данные, анализ пространственно неоднородных данных, методы пространственной эконометрики, географически взвешенная регрессия, географический рыночный потенциал, factors of population growth in cities, spatially dependent data, the analysis of spatially heterogeneous data, methods of spatial econometrics, geographically weighted regression, the geographic market potential, Economics as a science, HB71-74

The article analyzes the growth rate of the urban population in Russia according to their size and region. It is revealed that the growth rate of the urban population are not the same for the regions of Russia. An econometric analysis of the data with geo-referenced using geographically weighted regression is conducted. In order to determine the causes of urban growth rate geographic market potential offered by Soo is used.